Nancy Grace Roman’s 100th Birthday

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Hubble Images a Peculiar Spiral

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a peculiar spiral galaxy called Arp 184 or NGC 1961. via NASA https://ift.tt/2CHZrVe Th...

Back to Earth

The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is pictured backing away from the International Space Station shortly after undocking from the Rassvet module on...

Adding Dimension to Cassiopeia A

Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is a supernova remnant located about 11,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. It spans approxima...

Saxophone in Space

Astronaut Ronald E. McNair, STS-41B mission specialist, used some of his off-duty time aboard the space shuttle Challenger to play his saxo...

Hubble Spots a Squid in the Whale

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. via NASA https://ift.tt/6...

Seeing the Cygnus Loop in a New Way

The Cygnus Loop (also known as the Veil Nebula) is a supernova remnant, the remains of the explosive death of a massive star. via NASA http...

Hubble Visits Glittering Cluster, Capturing Its Ultraviolet Light

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster Messier 72 (M72). via NASA https://ift.tt/Zf5ObNy This NASA/ESA Hu...

All Hands for Artemis III

A NASA spacesuit glove designed for use during spacewalks on the International Space Station is prepared for thermal vacuum testing inside ...

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson

The asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI). This is one of the most detailed images returne...

Sunshine on Earth

The sun's glint beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above ...