NASA's IXPE Studies Magnetar

A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but ne...

Taking Flight to Prepare for Space

NASA astronaut candidate Adam Fuhrmann prepares for a training flight aboard NASA’s WB-57 aircraft. via NASA https://ift.tt/ONSkLTl NASA ast...

Artemis III Orion Crew and Service Models Joined

Engineers connect the Orion crew and service modules for the Artemis III mission inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Buildi...

Roman Space Telescope Plaque Install

Technicians inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center complete installation of a commemorative plaque o...

Guinea-Bissau Tidal Waters

Relatively low tidal waters expose sandflats and mudflats in the Bijagós Archipelago of Guinea-Bissau in this image acquired on November 28,...

NASA's Newest Wind Tunnel Opens at NASA Langley

NASA opened its newest wind tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Friday,...

Starburst Galaxy Centaurus A

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals the nearby galaxy Centaurus A, exposing the dusty structures and ...

Understanding How Martian Auroras Are Made

This illustration depicts charged particles from a solar storm stripping away charged particles of Mars' atmosphere, one of the processe...

NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Returns to Earth

NASA astronaut Chris Williams is seen outside the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft after he landed with Expedition 74 Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-...

New Crew Members Welcomed to International Space Station

From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA pose for a portrait while holdin...

Crews Move Artemis IV Liquid Hydrogen Tank

Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall liquid hydrogen tank out of a production cell inside th...

A New Look – and Sound – for Messier 94

Messier 94 is a spiral galaxy with a bright inner ring around it, called a starburst ring, where new stars are forming. via NASA https://ift...

Psyche Approaches Mars

This composite of images taken by NASA’s Psyche mission shows the crescent of Mars grow as the spacecraft approached the planet for a gravit...

Our First View of the Surface of Mars

On the morning of July 20, 1976, roughly 40 minutes after mission controllers received word that the Viking 1 lander had successfully touche...

NASA's Chandra and IXPE Study Pulsar in Lighthouse Nebula

Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) directly measured the magnetic fields of PSR J1101−6101, a pulsar located ...

Young Galaxy Cluster

In the Picture of the Month from the James Webb Space Telescope, we are taken on a visit to a building site of significant scale. The projec...

Anil Menon Launches to Space Station

NASA astronaut candidate Anna Menon and her children watch as a Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 75 ...

Hubble Sees Crimson Cloud and Stars

A glowing landscape of gas and dust is heated and illuminated by a thriving population of young stars in the LH 95 region of the Large Magel...

NASA Astronaut Anil Menon

NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon poses in a spacesuit for a portrait at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Housto...

Waxing Gibbous Moon

The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured above Earth from the International Space Station as it orbited 264 miles above a partly cloudy Indian Oc...