Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, briefs Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on celestial objects in 1965 in ...
Webb Finds Icy Disk
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- May 17, 2025
Webb has found crystalline water ice in a debris disk around a young, Sun-like star called HD 181327. Based on its presence in our own sola...
Deimos Before Dawn
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- May 16, 2025
NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time ...
Pretty in Pink
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- May 15, 2025
The perfectly picturesque spiral galaxy known as Messier 81, or M81, looks sharp in this composite from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space...
Lightning in Southeast Asia
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- May 13, 2025
Astronaut Don Pettit took this nighttime photo while the International Space Station orbited near the Andaman Sea in Southeast Asia. via NA...
Jupiter’s Turbulent Atmosphere
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- May 13, 2025
JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA's Juno, captured this view of Jupiter's northern high latitudes during the spacecraft...
25 Years of NASA Student Launch
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- May 10, 2025
Students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst team carry their high-powered rocket toward the launch pad at NASA’s 2025 Student Lau...
NASA Astronaut Anne McClain Works on Space Station
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- May 09, 2025
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 flight engineer Anne McClain is pictured near one of the International Space Station's main solar arra...
A Glimpse of a Meatball
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- May 08, 2025
The NASA "meatball" logo mounted on the south side of the Flight Research Building at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Clevela...
SPHEREx Starts Scanning Entire Sky
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- May 07, 2025
NASA's SPHEREx mission is observing the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, or wavelengths of light not visible to the human eye. This i...