A space shuttle lifts off high above the surrounding land in this Aug. 1, 1973, illustration. With 135 missions flown…
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on…
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this timelapse photo of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from the International Space Station as it…
“My mom had to leave school after 9th grade to support her family, but she always emphasized the importance of…
On June 10, 2023, the Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8 acquired this image of Mount Taranaki, a snow-capped mountain…
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have identified a supermassive black hole that has torn apart one star and…
The International Space Station offers a unique microgravity environment where cells outside the human body behave similarly to how they…
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Kirk Johnson, Sant Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, preview…
The golden records placed aboard Voyager 1 and 2 each have a cover with special etchings, seen here in this…
In this June 26, 2023, photo taken from the International Space Station, sunlight shines off the smooth waters of the…