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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
A white rocket lifts off from the launch pad, spewing billowing clouds of white vapor horizontally along the ground. A relatively short column of flames erupts from below the rocket just after liftoff. The early afternoon sky and the water in the foreground are similar, vibrant shades of blue.
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was about 44 million miles away from Earth in this photograph from the International Space Station...
A bright blue arc appears in the darkness of space. The comet streaks upward, almost perpendicular.
On New Zealand’s North Island, a conical snow-capped volcano ringed by dark green forest rises above dairy pasture. The often-snowcapped...
An overhead view of Mount Taranaki from a satellite. A white peak (a snow-capped mountain) is circled by dark green forest. The rest of the land around it is a bright green.
"It took years but it felt like all of the sudden, I was here and everything, the entire time, was...
Lead Astromaterial Curation Engineer Salvador Martinez III smiles at the camera wearing a plaid shirt inside the OSIRIS REx Lab.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, and Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Sant Director, Kirk Johnson, preview the Earth Information Center...
Two men in suits stand behind a short curved barrier. They look at a large curved screen that spans the room. The screen shows information, maps, and other graphics that relay information about carbon dioxide. The man on the right is pointing at the display.
Flying aboard Voyagers 1 and 2 are identical "golden" records, carrying the story of Earth far into deep space. This...
A golden record cover shines against a black background. Etched into the cover are several diagrams that explain how to play the record.
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot this photo of large meanders of the Alabama River while orbiting over...
The silvery waters of the Alabama River meander across the image, contrasted against surrounding land in shades of green. At various points, the water extends outward from the borders of the river.
Chirag Parikh, Deputy Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary of the National Space Council, left, and NASA Astronauts Frank...
Two Hispanic men in blue jumpsuits with NASA patches on them sit at a table, smiling at people off screen. There are people of different ethnicities in the background.
"This is why [Aubrey Gemignani] and I started Faces of NASA: We wanted to make that connection. It's not just...
A woman with long, dark brown hair and subtle blue highlights stares head on at the camera wearing a white tank top with blue and purple roses on it.
Earlier this year, the Florida Panthers won their first NHL championship and brought victory to the state of Florida. As...
The silver Stanley Cup is in the foreground at right. The Stanley Cup looks like a large silver bowl set on top of a stacked column of thick silver layers. There are words engraved on the Cup. Behind it is a body of water and the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, a massive, boxy gray and white building.
The inaugural murals for the relaunched NASA Art Program appear side-by-side at 350 Hudson Street, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in...
An image of two murals painted on loading dock garage doors. The murals include bold, bright colors and geometric shapes. The image to the left features Earth with a satellite that features the NASA logo. The mural on the right has an image of a child in an astronaut suit playing with toys.
STS-128 mission specialist José Hernández waits his turn to enter space shuttle Discovery at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida....
Astronaut José Hernández, a Hispanic man, smiles broadly at the camera while waiting to board space shuttle Discovery. He wears an orange escape suit that has an American flag patch on the left shoulder. Behind him are mission specialists Patrick Forrester (left) and Christer Fuglesang (back to camera).
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is seen smiling and holding a gifted matryoshka doll outside the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft after...
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is seen smiling and holding a gifted matryoshka doll outside the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft after she landed with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub,
Joylette Hylick, left, and Katherine Moore, daughters of Katherine Johnson, accept the Congressional Gold Medal on behalf of Katherine Johnson...
Two Black women and a white man face slightly left as they pose for a photo. The man and the woman in the middle hold a box containing a Congressional Gold Medal.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy IC 4709 located around 240 million light-years away in the...
A spiral galaxy with a bright-white core, a glowing disk thick with swirling patterns of dark dust, and a faint halo around the disk. It is on a black background with a few small, distant galaxies and some foreground stars around it.
"I would say family and part of that 'first-gen experience' [shaped me]...It shaped me to be a hard worker and...
Zaida Hernandez, a hispanic woman with long wavy brown hair and dark brown eyes, smiles brightly at the camera while sitting inside a mock up of NASA's Orion Crew Capsule. She's wearing a blue blazer and flight hardware is seen all around her.
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot this photo of peak fall colors around Ottawa, the capital of Canada....
Orange tree leaves cover the left side of the aerial image of Ottawa, Canada. To the right, streets, buildings, and other city infrastructure is visible. A waterway splits the image horizontally through the middle; another river also travels from top to bottom slightly right of center.
The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 265 miles above the U.S. state...
The waxing gibbous Moon looks nearly full in the darkness of space.
NASA's Europa Clipper is seen here on Aug. 21, 2024, in a clean room at the agency's Kennedy Space Center...
Large black rectangular solar arrays stretch out from the foreground to the back.
Chile pepper plants growing in the Advanced Plant Habitat aboard the International Space Station bore fruit in the late summer...
A small flower's white petals stretch outward in the center of the image. The petals are slightly curly at the edges. There are bright and dark green leaves of varying sizes as well as flower buds around the flower. Other plants are out of focus in the background at left.
NGC 1333 is a nearby star-forming region in the Perseus constellation. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope surveyed a large portion...
A nebula made up of cloudy gas and dust in the form of soft and wispy clouds and, in the center, thin and highly detailed layers pressed close together. Large, bright stars surrounded by six long points of light are dotted over the image, as well as some small, point-like stars embedded in the clouds. The clouds are lit up in blue close to the stars; orange colors show clouds that glow in infrared light.
iss071e522460 (Aug. 20, 2024) --- The dome-shaped Brandburg Massif, near the Atlantic coast of central Namibia, containing Brandberg Mountain, the...
The dome-shaped Brandburg Massif, near the Atlantic coast of central Namibia, containing Brandberg Mountain, the African nation's highest peak and ancient rock paintings going back at least 2,000 years, is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above.
Tiny satellites, also known as CubeSats, are pictured after being deployed into Earth orbit from a small satellite orbital deployer...
Tiny satellites, also known as CubeSats, are pictured after being deployed into Earth orbit from a small satellite orbital deployer on the outside of the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module.
Construction of the world’s largest wind tunnel and its original 40- by 80-foot test section.
Black and white photo of a wind tunnel at Ames under construction. A Navy blimp is flying in the background.
In this image, PPE engineers successfully tested the integration of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s thruster with Maxar’s power procession unit and Xenon...
In this image, PPE engineers successfully tested the integration of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s thruster with Maxar’s power procession unit and Xenon Flow Controller.
A vivid aurora streams over the Earth as the International Space Station orbited 273 miles above the southern Indian Ocean...
Aurora Over the Earth
NASA T-38s fly in formation above the Space Launch System rocket on Launch Pad 39B.
NASA T-38s fly in formation above the Space Launch System rocket on Launch Pad 39B.
Dense bands of dust streamed offshore from southern Morocco in summer 2024. The VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on...
At center, light brown sand wafts over the dark blue ocean. Some white clouds are over the ocean at left and a brown land mass is on the right.
Backdropped against the blue and white Earth 130 nautical miles below, astronaut Mark C. Lee tests the new Simplified Aid...
An astronaut in a white spacesuit floats untethered in space, next to a spacecraft. White clouds on Earth form a backdrop to this image.
The Pegasus Dwarf spheroidal galaxy, also known as Andromeda VI, is one of at least 13 dwarf galaxies that orbit...
Several stars shine against black space. A few foreground stars with diffraction spikes throughout.
When this picture was taken in July 1994, Dr. Irene Duhart Long was director of the Biomedical Operations and Research...
Dr. Long, an African American woman with curly hair, poses for a picture while leaning over a white microscope. She wears large aviator-shaped glasses and a black and white patterned top and pants.
The Dash 7 that will be modified into a hybrid electric research vehicle under NASA’s Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD)...
A four engine turboprop aircraft wrapped in a red and white livery with logos and names of each partner on the project sits under the lights inside an aircraft hangar. On the ground in front of the plane is an electric powertrain with an electric motor and battery pack that will soon be swapped out with one of the aircraft’s traditional engines to form a hybrid electric system.
The International Space Station was orbiting on a northeast track 261 miles above the Pacific Ocean when this photograph captured...
The beginning rays of an orbital sunrise illuminate Earth's atmosphere, a slight, blue arc across the center of the image. Earth is below, totally dark, matching the blackness of space above.
A supermoon rises over Huntsville, Alabama, home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Aug. 19. Visible through Wednesday, Aug. 21,...
A super blue moon is to the left of the replica Saturn V at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Slow and steady wins the race for this gopher tortoise, ambling along the Launch Pad 39B beach road on NASA's...
A gopher tortoise walks toward the camera along a gravelly road with one front leg and one hind leg in the air. The scales on its legs are in sharp detail, while the immediate foreground and background are blurry.
A training model of the sample return capsule is seen is seen during a drop test in preparation for the...
An orange and white parachute is visible at top right. It is attached to a training model of a capsule. The black and white cone-like capsule is quite small in this image. The pale ground below makes up the background of the image.
The subject of this week’s circular Hubble Picture of the Week is situated in the Perseus Cluster, also known as...
An almost circular galaxy is at the center of the image. It has a glowing bar stretching across its core; from the ends of the bar, thin spiral arms wrap around the galaxy to form a closed disk. The arms are fuzzy from the dust and stars they contain. The galaxy is on a black, mostly empty background. A few foreground stars with cross-shaped diffraction spikes can be seen, as well as some distant galaxies in the background.
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station snapped this photo while in orbit over southeast Brazil. The image focuses on...
A multi-colored area of land is split horizontally by a cloudy blue river. The river cuts into the land at many points. The land is various shades of green, red, and yellow. Clumps of white clouds dot the top part and a little bit of the bottom land.
Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida practice the Artemis mission emergency escape, or egress, procedures on Friday, Aug....
Four people dressed in orange astronaut suits and white helmets with black visors begin to get out of a large white metal basket that is lifted some inches above the ground.
This view of the Earth's crest over the lunar horizon was taken during the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission. Apollo...
The Earth appears in the blackness of space as a slim white crescent. In the foreground is the rough, rocky gray surface of the Moon.