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A portrait of Mary W. Jackson is seen after it was unveiled, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, at the NASA Headquarters...
A black and white photo of Mary W. Jackson, an African American woman, is in a silver frame. The picture is displayed on a wall with a plaque underneath. Overhead light highlights the photograph.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Commander Suni Williams checks out the Astrobee robotic free-flyer in the Kibo laboratory module outfitted...
Astrobee, a robot that looks like a small black cube with two blue tentacle-like arms on top. Behind it, astronaut Suni Williams stretches her arms out to match Astrobee's arms.
iss072e029127 (Oct. 8, 2024) --- Hurricane Milton, a Category 5 storm at the time of this photograph, is pictured in...
Hurricane Milton, a Category 5 storm at the time of this photograph, is pictured in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Yucatan Peninsula from the International Space Station as it orbited 257 miles above.
These shape-shifting galaxies have taken on the form of a giant mask. The icy blue eyes are actually the cores...
Eyes in the Sky
iss071e207882 (June 24, 2024) --- At center, Expedition 71 Flight Engineers Matthew Dominick and Jeanette Epps pose with Expedition 71...
At center, Expedition 71 Flight Engineers Matthew Dominick and Jeanette Epps pose with Expedition 71 Flight Engineers (from left) Mike Barratt and Tracy C. Dyson, all four NASA astronauts, in their spacesuits aboard the International Space Station's Quest airlock.
A super blue moon rises above NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Aug. 18, 2024. Although not actually...
An orange full moon is the only thing you can see in this image. The sky is black, and the outline of some clouds are visible against the Moon.
Technicians move NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to accommodate installation of its five-panel solar array...
Technicians move NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to accommodate installation of its five-panel solar array at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
In a historic first, all six radio frequency antennas at the Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex – part of NASA's...
In a nighttime landscape of rolling grasses and trees, 6 large off-white satellites face to the right. Each satellite has bright spotlights near it, but the surrounding area remains mostly dark.
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.
Employees from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida watch as teams with Exploration Ground Systems transport the agency’s powerful SLS...
The Artemis II rocket core stage, a long orange cylinder with four red boosters) is on its side as it rolls into the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center while employees watch. The VAB is a tall rectangular building with the American flag and NASA "meatball" logo painted on its left and right side, respectively. There is also an Artemis logo on a lower portion of the building.
The Artemis II crew, NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy...
Four astronauts, three men and one woman (second from right), rest their hands on the handles of short shovels that are planted in dirt. They surround a small tree sapling that has bright green leaves.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41 at...
A white rocket takes off, leaving a trail of fire and vapor behind it. The sky is a cool blue-gray.
The aurora turns the sky near Malad City, Idaho, red, purple, and green in this 8-second exposure taken on May...
A tree (bottom right) and its branches are silhouetted against the dramatic night sky, which is red, purple, and green. Streaks of light shimmer, making the aurora look like the folds in a curtain (middle left). A road winds toward the mountainous horizon (bottom middle), and the back of a car appears (bottom right). There is a white streak in the sky (middle top). This is likely the International Space Station, which passed over the area at the time the image was taken.
NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen, left, Frank Rubio, Warren Hoburg, and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, right, pose for...
Four men wearing red, rectangular eclipse glasses and blue jumpsuits look up at the Sun. They are on the rooftop of a building. The U.S. Capitol dome is visible behind them.
The "Tarantula Nebula" (officially known as 30 Doradus) is available in a composite image of Chandra and JWST data for...
The "Tarantula Nebula" (officially known as 30 Doradus).
This high exposure photograph from the International Space Station shows Earth's atmospheric glow and a starry sky as the orbital...
This high exposure photograph from the International Space Station shows Earth's atmospheric glow and a starry sky as the orbital complex soared above the Pacific Ocean.
Photographers at NASA capture the sunset on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, near the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy...
Slightly left of center, the Sun sets behind some vegetation. The sky is a dusty pale blue with a few clouds in it. Trees and plants arc around a body of water, and the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) stands at the right edge of the image. The VAB is a very tall, white and gray linear building with a United States flag and NASA meatball logo painted on the front.
Landsat 9 captured this image of lava coming from an eruptive fissure near Stóra Skógfell peak on Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula....
Lava cuts a jagged orange gash across a grayish landscape in this satellite view of Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula on Nov. 24, 2024. A plume of white smoke - gas - streams toward the bottom of the picture.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander takes off from the launch pad at night. The flames coming from the bottom of the rocket (the bright spot at center) light up the surrounding area, illuminating clouds of white vapor that spread outward along the ground. The light also reflects off water in the foreground. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
NASA and Lockheed Martin publicly unveil the X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft at a ceremony in Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works...
Members of an audience lift their phones to snap a photo of the recently revealed X-59 aircraft. The plane's long, sharp nose appears to jut out towards the audience.
iss072e029590_alt (Oct. 8, 2024) --- Hurricane Milton is pictured as a category 4 storm in the Gulf of Mexico nearing...
Hurricane Milton is pictured as a category 4 storm in the Gulf of Mexico nearing the coast of Florida in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 257 miles above. The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft is also pictured from a window on the Dragon Endeavour spacecraft.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy, named UGC 10043. Located roughly 150 million light-years from Earth...
A spiral galaxy seen directly from the side, such that its disk looks like a narrow diagonal band across the image. A band of dark dust covers the disk in the center most of the way out to the ends, and the disk glows around that. In the center of the galaxy, a whitish circle of light bulges out above and below the disk. Each end of the disk curves slightly. The background is black and mostly empty.
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.
iss071e207890 (June 24, 2024) --- NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore (at center) pose with...
NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore (at center) pose with Expedition 71 Flight Engineers (far left) Mike Barratt and Tracy C. Dyson (far right), both NASA astronauts, in their spacesuits aboard the International Space Station's Quest airlock.
Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems transport lower the agency’s 212-foot-tall SLS (Space Launch System) core stage into High Bay...
An immense orange cylindrical object - the SLS core stage - is surrounded by a blue metal structure. The space around them is dark.