Image of the DayDr. Eugene Parker (seated), a pioneer in heliophysics, watches the liftoff of the mission named in his honor.IIn this image, a Hayabusa2 sample canister containing sample fragments of the asteroid Ryugu is transferred from JAXA, the Japan...Each December the Geminids meteor showers appear in the night sky.Snoopy, the Zero G Indicator for the Artemis I mission, was delivered to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 2...A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from Launch Complex 39A, Thursday,...This stunning image captures a small region on the edge of the inky Coalsack Nebula, or Caldwell 99.NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, or LCRD, launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Tuesday, Dec. 7,...This image of our home planet shows how Earth looked from more than 950,000 miles, or 1.5 million kilometers, away...Christopher Kraft, flight director during Project Mercury, works at his console inside the Flight Control area at Mercury Mission Control.NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas of this scene at two times of day...These four nebulae are known for their breathtaking beauty: the Eagle Nebula (which contains the Pillars of Creation), the Omega...As the Crew-2 mission departed the International Space Station aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour, the crew snapped this image of...NGC 6891 is a bright, asymmetrical planetary nebula in the constellation Delphinus, the Dolphin.This artist's concept shows a supermassive black hole surrounded by a disk of gas.Mounded, luminous clouds of gas and dust glow in this Hubble image of a Herbig-Haro object known as HH 45.The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will help determine if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective...The Flame Nebula, also called NGC 2024, is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400...NASA astronaut Victor Glover speaks with students about his time aboard the International Space Station, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, at...A pair of U.S. spacesuits are pictured inside the International Space Station's Quest airlock ready for an upcoming spacewalk.This Hubble infrared image captures a protostar designated J1672835.29-763111.64 in the reflection nebula IC 2631, part of the Chamaeleon star-forming...This image taken from the space station shows the blue-green waters around the Bahamas.On the final day of the event, the group visited Plum Brook Station and heard about the upcoming Orion environmental...A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the...During its 36th low pass over Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this view of striking cloud bands and swirls in...The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft is lifted onto the GO Navigator recovery ship after it landed off the coast...This image shows knots of cold, dense interstellar gas where new stars are forming. These Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules (frEGGs)...The aurora borealis glow on the northern horizon while stars wheel overhead in this long exposure, taken near the Bonneville...The colorful planetary nebula, NGC 2438, formed after the death of a Sun-like star. It appears to lie on the...An artists' impression of the Mariner 10 mission, the first mission to perform an interplanetary gravity assist.An aurora dimly intersected with Earth's airglow as the International Space Station flew into an orbital sunrise 264 miles above...Steve Lighthill began to study art at the age of 16, taking courses in painting, sculpture, and jewelry during high...In this 90-second exposure, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is rolled to the...Take a tour of some of the most terrifying and mind-blowing destinations in our galaxy ... and beyond.On October 8, 2014, active regions on our Sun gave it the appearance of a jack-o'-lantern.In June 2021, NASA received its first sample of asteroid Ryugu, which was returned to Earth in December 2020.This celestial lightsaber does not lie in a galaxy far, far away, but rather inside our home galaxy, the Milky...Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida lifted the Orion spacecraft and placed it atop the Space Launch System...The Hubble Space Telescope's glamour shots of the universe nearly always have a discovery behind them.A vivid aurora streams over the Earth as the International Space Station orbited 274 miles above the southern Indian Ocean.Concept for a set of future robots working together to ferry back samples from the surface of Mars collected by...