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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.
In this image of the Serpens Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found a grouping of aligned protostellar...
A rectangular image with black vertical rectangles at the bottle left and top right to indicate missing data. A young star-forming region is filled with wispy orange, red, and blue layers of gas and dust. The upper left corner of the image is filled with mostly orange dust, and within that orange dust, there are several small red plumes of gas that extend from the top left to the bottom right, at the same angle. The center of the image is filled with mostly blue gas. At the center, there is one particularly bright star, that has an hourglass shadow above and below it. To the right of that is what looks a vertical eye-shaped crevice with a bright star at the center. The gas to the right of the crevice is a darker orange. Small points of light are sprinkled across the field, brightest sources in the field have extensive eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of the Webb Telescope.
The International Space Station's "window to the world" is pictured from the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module.
The International Space Station's "window to the world" is pictured from the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module.
Interior of the 20-foot diameter vacuum tank at the NASA Lewis Research Center’s Electric Propulsion Laboratory.
Two workers in a large vacuum tank.
Erosion, tectonic uplift, and a human-built dam have all helped shape the Upper Lake Powell area in Utah.
Erosion, tectonic uplift, and a human-built dam have all helped shape the Upper Lake Powell area in Utah.
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.
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.
In the arid outback of Western Australia, miners have excavated rust-colored soil to reach the precious minerals below. The open...
An overhead view of a mine in the dry outback of Australia. Most of the image is dominated by rusty red soil. Miners have excavated the soil in places, revealing an off-white color in these open pits. Some water is visible as well, in ponds.
Ranger 7 took this image, the first picture of the Moon by a U.S. spacecraft, on July 31, 1964, about...
A black and white image of the Moon's surface. Many craters of different sizes can be seen. There is a grid of marks overlaid on the photo.
"And don't be intimidated or influenced by an emblem or your perception of what kind of people are behind that...
Transportation Officer Melissa Coleman stands in front of a white van with the NASA emblem on it.
A rabbit sits in the underbrush at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The center shares a border with the...
A brown rabbit's back and head are just visible between blades of green grass.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a wonderfully detailed snapshot of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430 that lies 100...
A spiral galaxy with three prominent arms wrapping around it. The galaxy holds plenty of extra gas and dark dust between the arms. There are shining blue points throughout the arms and some patches of gas out beyond the galaxy’s edge, where stars are forming. The center of the galaxy also shines brightly. It is on a dark background where some small orange dots mark distant galaxies.
From left to right, NASA astronaut candidates Anil Menon, Deniz Burnham, and Marcos Berrios pose for a photograph in front...
Three astronauts have their arms over each other's shoulders as they smile for the camera. From left to right, they are Anil Menon, a Ukrainian and Indian American man, Deniz Burnham, a white woman, and Marcos Berríos, a Latino man. All three wear blue jumpsuits with various patches sewn on, including a NASA patch, a patch with their name, and an American flag patch. The picture shows them from the knees up. In the distance behind them, beyond a grassy area, are the Artemis I rocket and spacecraft. The launch pad is out of focus, but the SLS's distinctive butterscotch orange color can be made out.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Saturn on July 4, 2020. Two of Saturn's icy moons are clearly...
Saturn and its rings appear to glow against the darkness of space. At right and at middle bottom, two small dots can be seen: they are two of Saturn's moons - Mimas and Enceladus, respectively. Saturn itself takes on a reddish tint in its northern hemisphere and blue at its bottom. The planet's concentric rings are an icy white.
Astronauts Eileen M. Collins, STS-93 mission commander, and Jeffrey S. Ashby, pilot, peruse checklists on Columbia's middeck.
Two astronauts, one male (back) and one female (front) float inside the space shuttle. The woman in the front smiles at the camera while holding a spiral bound notebook in her right hand. She is wearing a blue polo shirt and blue pants with utility pockets on the thigh, as well as a gold watch on her left wrist. Her short brown hair floats upward.
The barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 is interacting with a smaller galaxy to the upper left. The smaller galaxy has...
In this composite image, a large spiral galaxy has some of its superheated gas stolen by a smaller, nearby neighbor. Centered in the frame, NGC 6872 is a large spiral galaxy with two elongated arms that stretch toward our upper right and lower left. Near the white dot at the heart of the galaxy, a cloud of neon purple tints the arms, which appear steel blue at the tips. The purple represents hot gas detected by Chandra. Just to the upper left of NGC 6872 is a second spiral galaxy. Its spiraling arms are much smaller, but the bright white dot at its core is quite large, suggesting a supermassive black hole. Some of the steel blue matter and gas from NGC 6872’s lower arm appears to be floating toward the smaller galaxy, likely pulled toward the supermassive black hole.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, poses for a photo beside the U.S. flag that has been placed on the...
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin looks at a United States flag as he stands to the right of it. He is wearing a white spacesuit. The lunar module is on the left side of the flag. Bootprints in the gray lunar soil trail from the right in the foreground to the gold lunar module in the back. The darkness of space provides a contrasting backdrop to the image. The faint crosses on the image are markings that are used to calibrate distance and heights in photos taken on the lunar surface.
On July 16, 2024, the Artemis II core stage rolled out of the Vertical Assembly Building to the waiting Pegasus...
An aerial view of the Artemis II SLS core stage on a road. The core stage is a massive orange and white cylinder with four silver and red engines at the bottom. There are two vehicles on the road behind the core stage, highlighting its size. The road curves up from bottom left of the photo to the top middle, where it ends at a body of water. The land surrounding the road is a bright green.
"I found out years later that seeing me in high school and hearing my experience in college inspired her to...
Acting Center Chief Technologist Dr. Phillip Williams holds up a model and smiles at the camera. A NASA meatball logo can be seen in the background.
Apollo 11 launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9:32 a.m. EDT, July 16, 1969. Aboard the Apollo...
The Apollo 11 spacecraft lifts off from a launchpad. The view looks downward at an angle, so the entirety of the spacecraft is visible. Vapor spreads out behind the rocket. Further in the distance is blue water and sky.
Painting of the NASA logo, also called the meatball, continued on the 525-foot-tall Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy...
Painters stand on suspended platforms as they work on painting the red, white, and blue NASA "meatball" logo on the white and gray Vehicle Assembly Building. The painters are tiny compared to the size of the logo.
The distorted spiral galaxy at center, the Penguin, and the compact elliptical at left, the Egg, are locked in an...
Arp 142, two interacting galaxies, observed in near- and mid-infrared light. At left is NGC 2937, nicknamed the Egg. Its center is the brighter and whiter. There are six diffraction spikes atop its gauzy blue layers. At right is NGC 2936, nicknamed the Penguin. Its beak-like region points toward and above the Egg. Where the eye would be is a small, opaque yellow spiral. The Penguin’s distorted arms form the bird’s beak, back, and tail. The tail is wide and layered, like a beta fish’s tail. A semi-transparent blue hue traces the Penguin and extends from the galaxy, creating an upside-down U over top of both galaxies. At top right is another galaxy seen from the side, pointing roughly at a 45-degree angle. It is largely light blue. Its length appears approximately as long as the Egg’s height. One foreground star with large, bright blue diffraction spikes appears over top of the galaxy and another near it. The entire black background is filled with tiny, extremely distant galaxies.
Several transient luminous events illuminate pockets of Earth’s upper atmosphere. A line of thunderstorms off the coast of South Africa...
A line of bright blue lightning storms shines against a black background. Above the largest storm small wisps of red sprites stretch up. Along the left side, small yellow lights shine from an illuminated city.
The Artemis II Core Stage moves from final assembly to the VAB at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans...
The Artemis II Core Stage moves from final assembly to the VAB at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in preparation for delivery to Kennedy Spaceflight Center later this month. Image credit: NASA/Michael DeMocker
Space shuttle Columbia heads skyward after clearing the fixed service structure tower at Launch Complex Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy...
Space shuttle Columbia lifts off from the launchpad, heading upward through the partly cloudy blue sky. A conical spray of fire comes out from the bottom of the spacecraft. It is the brightest thing in the image. Below that, clouds of vapor spread out horizontally across the pad. In the foreground are some green plants.