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Floating fragments of sea ice spun into intricate patterns as ocean currents carried them south along Greenland’s east coast in...
A satellite view of sea ice. The ice is white and solid at top left, while the edges swirl and swoop through the dark blue water.
The waning gibbous Moon is pictured above Earth from the International Space Station as it soared into an orbital nighttime...
The waning gibbous moon is a small gray circle at the top middle of this photo. Some details of the Moon's surface can be seen. The top half of the photo is black, while the bottom half is a hazy blue.
The Intersex Progress Pride flag flies beneath the American flag on the center pole with the California state and NASA...
Three silver flagpoles are in front of a building with the words "Ames Research Center" on it. On the left pole is the California state flag. On the middle flagpole are, from top to bottom, the American flag and the Intersex Progress Pride flag. The Intersex Progress Pride flag has a purple circle on a yellow triangle, a five-stripe chevron with colors representing LGBTQI+ people of color and the transgender community, and rainbow stripes. Finally, on the right flagpole, is the NASA flag.
The rising Earth is about five degrees above the lunar horizon in this telephoto view taken from the Apollo 8...
A color photograph of Earth rising over the horizon of the Moon, as seen from the Apollo 8 spacecraft. The Moon's horizon is a dull gray, covering the bottom quarter of the image. Earth, with its blue water and white swirling clouds, is almost at the center of the image. The bottom third of Earth is not visible.
A Florida redbelly turtle casts a suspicious look as he is being photographed on the grounds of NASA's Kennedy Space...
A Florida redbelly turtle looks to its left, directly at the camera. The turtle takes up most of the image. Its head and body peek out from its shell. The top of the shell is dark brown with lighter brown patterns; the underside is a pale tan-yellow. There are small pieces of vegetation stuck to the top of the turtle's shell.
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.
Technicians inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida prepare to rotate the agency’s largest...
Technicians wearing blue suits with white head coverings and gloves look on as the Europa Clipper spacecraft is lifted out of its protective shipping container. The spacecraft is silver with orange wiring throughout; many of its components are wrapped.
An external high-definition camera on the International Space Station captured this image of Hurricane Idalia at 11:35 a.m. Eastern Time...
Hurricane Idalia as seen from the International Space Station looks like a huge, sprawling white circular cloud. It dominates the image, with the water of the Gulf of Mexico mostly visible in the bottom right portion of the photo. Also at bottom right is part of Cuba. At top is some of Earth's curvature and at bottom left is part of the space station.
Featured in this new image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope is the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449. This galaxy,...
A close view of the central area of a dwarf galaxy. A huge number of stars fill the whole galaxy as tiny glowing points. They are brightest around the galaxy’s shining core. Thick clouds of gas and dust billow out across the scene, curling like moving flames. They glow in warm colours following their location: orange around the galaxy’s core, and around glowing star clusters in the bottom-left, and dark red elsewhere.
"I say that to my team, whenever I have an opportunity. I share with my team that they are enabling...
“I had the privilege of being the very first project manager for [the] Near Space Network (NSN), and in my current role as deputy program manager for [the] Exploration and Space Communications Division, it is still in my portfolio. NSN is one of the [agency’s two] communication and navigation networks. When we see the volume and the variety of NASA, other agency, and commercial missions supported by the network, and the science being achieved, and the exploration being enabled — when you leave for the day, you feel accomplished that you contributed [to the] agency’s goal. You contributed toward [the] nation’s priorities, such as cislunar [exploration], and then you helped humankind by enabling the science and exploration. Without communication, every satellite in this space is a black box. So, just knowing that every single day we are flowing terabytes of data through relay and direct-to-earth services directly to our [missions], enabling the exploration and achieving the science — is a great sense of accomplishment. ... Whatever role you are in, as long as you find a way to understand what mission, what goal, what objective you are contributing to, there is no bigger motivator than that. As a software programmer, normally you think that your job is to come in and write some code and solve some discrepancy reports and do the testing — and then you go home. But in the end, when you see that the program you are writing or fixing is something that controls the satellite that’s observing the sea levels and the sea temperatures or [controls] a capsule that is carrying astronauts, now you know you're actually contributing to a bigger purpose, a bigger objective. I say that to my team, whenever I have an opportunity. I share with my team that they are enabling science and exploration for dozens of missions being supported by NSN. Initially it just seems like words, but once they start realizing [their contributions] are real, I can tell you those people don't want to go anywhere. They just feel that sense of accomplishment.” NASA Deputy Program Manager for Exploration and Space Communications, Vir Thanvi poses for a portrait, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024 at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Photo Credit: (NASA/Thalia Patrinos)
Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, lunar module pilot, egresses the Apollo 10 spacecraft during recovery operations in the South Pacific. U.S....
In the middle of a deep blue ocean, choppy with small waves, are two rafts. On the left is a larger orange raft that surrounds the Apollo 10 spacecraft. The spacecraft is a rounded pyramid shape and is painted white. Two men in black wetsuits look on as astronaut Eugene A. Cernan emerges from the spacecraft. Two other astronauts dressed in white are already on the smaller orange raft on the right, along with another person in a black wetsuit.
Helen Ling was a supervisor for the computing group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1960s. She was influential...
Helen Ling, an Asian woman, looks over her shoulder at the camera. Her arm is resting on the back of the chair she's sitting on. In front of her are several large computers.
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins places a sample marker in the soil before collecting a sample during a nighttime simulated moonwalk...
At night, an astronaut wearing white gear places a sample marker in the soil. The soil in front of her is lit up by the lights on the front of the open helmet. Two people in bright vests look on. In the background on the left, another astronaut wearing a similar outfit looks at another patch of soil.
Present-day Island of Hawai'i coastal flood risk, with higher risk indicated in dark blue, was modeled to help the County...
The island of Hawai'i is black, with streaks of orange and purple. There is a big orange spot (near center). The water around the island is, going from left to right, orange and red. The coastline has a blue line along it, indicating high flood risk.
Nighttime, ground-level view of the Apollo 10 space vehicle on Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center. This photograph...
The Apollo 10 spacecraft towers over the launch pad spotlights that light it. It is white, with an American flag and "USA" on the lower portion. It is nighttime.
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a triple-star star system.
Three bright stars with diffraction spikes shine near the center-right of the image, illuminating nearby clouds that glow in pale blue. The clouds darken at the edges of the image, and are dotted with smaller stars, some also with diffraction spikes.
"For the girls or women in science — or in any profession or job — opportunities are more abundant than...
Space Physics and Space Weather Scientist Dr. Yihua Zheng, poses for a portrait, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024 at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Photo Credit: (NASA/Thalia Patrinos)
An illuminated waning gibbous moon contrasts the deep black of space as the International Space Station soared 270 miles over...
The silvery waning gibbous moon against the darkness of space, as seen from the International Space Station.
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.
An American Flamingo takes a sip of water in the Indian River at Haulover Canal on Merritt Island on Thursday,...
A flamingo lowers its neck to drink from the water it is standing in. Its neck bends like a backwards letter S and its legs are slightly spread apart. The flamingo's body is a rosy pink, with darker pink legs, and a more coral pink color on its neck and wings.
This image of the Andromeda galaxy uses data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope. Multiple wavelengths are shown, revealing stars...
This image of the Andromeda galaxy uses data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope. Multiple wavelengths are shown, revealing stars (in blue and cyan), dust (red), and areas of star formation. Dust swirls around like water going down a drain, as the black hole at the heart of the Andromeda consumes it.
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this oblique photograph of the Sulaiman Mountains in central Pakistan. The range...
A wall of gray haze meets the brown Sulaiman Mountains, looking almost like waves crashing on a beach.
This image of Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot and surrounding turbulent zones was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The color-enhanced...
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is at top left of this image taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft. Many smaller storms are visible as well.
During a mission dress rehearsal, NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronaut Suni Williams flashes a thumbs up in her Boeing...
Astronaut Suni Williams (left), an Indian- and Slovene-American woman, smiles and gives a thumbs up to the camera. She wears a blue Boeing spacesuit.
The Moon, left, Jupiter, right, and Saturn, above and to the left of Jupiter, are seen after sunset with the...
The Washington Monument - a tall, white rectangular monument with a pyramid at the top - is in the center of this image. The Moon (left), Saturn (upper right), and Jupiter (lower right) are in the night sky.
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer was launched on April 28, 2003. Its mission was to study the shape, brightness, size and...
An illustration of the space telescope Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The telescope is in the foreground. Its main body is wrapped in gold foil and solar panels are attached on either side.
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.
"What you eventually realize is that your success as a leader is not really yours, it’s the team’s. You’re not...
Dana Weigel stands and smiles in front of a large wall mural of the International Space Station. She has wavy blond hair and is wearing a dark blue jacket over a pink blouse with a circular necklace around her neck.
Rising from turbulent waves of dust and gas is the Horsehead Nebula, otherwise known as Barnard 33, which resides roughly...
A clumpy dome of blueish-gray clouds rises about a third of the way from the bottom. Above it, streaky, translucent red wisps brush upward to about halfway up the image. The top half of the image is the black background of space with one prominent, bright white star with Webb’s 8-point diffraction spikes. Additional stars and galaxies are scattered throughout the image, although very few are seen through the thick clouds at bottom, and all are significantly smaller than the largest star.
The magnificent central bar of NGC 2217 (also known as AM 0619-271) shines bright in the constellation of Canis Major...
A bright, white galactic core shines near the center of the image with a faint bar of stars extending from it, diagonally to the right. Faint, hazy spiral arms encircle the core, with several distant stars and bright blue foreground stars with diffraction spikes scattered throughout the image, all against black space.
Artists used paintbrushes and airbrushes to recreate the lunar surface on each of the four models comprising the LOLA simulator....
In this black-and-white photo, a man in a white shirt and dark tie uses an airbrush to paint on a large model that looks like the surface of the Moon. A crater is in the foreground, emphasizing the large size of the Moon model.
Rivers swelled in southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan in April 2024 following heavy rain and rapid snowmelt. This image shows...
An enhanced color image of Orenburg, Russia when the Ural River water levels peaked. Vegetation is a deep red, while water is blue green.
In celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers took a snapshot of the...
Taking up most of the image, is a multi-colored nebula in shades of blue, pink, yellow, orange, purple, and white. It appears as two translucent orbs attached by a white band.
Behold one of the more detailed images of Earth. This Blue Marble Earth montage—created from photographs taken by the Visible/Infrared...
North America is visible in this image of Earth. Clouds swirl all over the globe, and much of Earth's water is visible.
This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) of star-forming region NGC 604 shows how stellar winds...
At the center of the image is a nebula on the black background of space. The nebula is comprised of clumpy, red, filamentary clouds. At the center-right of the red clouds is a large cavernous bubble, and at the center of the bubble there is an opaque blueish glow with speckles of stars. At the edges of the bubble, the dust is white. There are several other smaller cavernous bubbles at the top of the nebula, including two tiny cavities at the top center of the image. There are thousands of stars that fill the surrounding area outside the nebula, most of them are yellow or white. At 11 o’clock and 6 o’clock there are extremely bright stars with 8 diffraction spikes. There are also some smaller, red stars and a few disk-shaped galaxies scattered across the image.
The ocean holds about 97 percent of Earth's water and covers 70 percent of our planet's surface. According to the...
This 2024 Earth Day poster is an ocean themed vertical 15x30 illustration created from NASA satellite cloud imagery overlaid on ocean data. The white cloud imagery wraps around shapes, defining three whales and a school of fish. Swirly cloud patterns, called Von Kármán Vortices, create the feeling of movement in the composition. The focal point is a cyclone in the upper third of the poster. At the center flies the recently launched PACE satellite. The ocean imagery – composed of blues, aquas, and greens – is filled with subtle color changes and undulating patterns created by churning sediment, organic matter and phytoplankton.
NASA Engineer Cindy Fuentes Rosal waves goodbye to a Black Brant IX sounding rocket launching from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility...
Cindy Fuentes Rosal, wearing a light-blue jacket with the words "Rocket Scientist" in white on the back, faces away from the camera with her hand in the air. In the background is a sounding rocket launching from a launch pad with a thick white trail of smoke underneath.
A team of engineers lifts the mast into place atop of NASA’s VIPER robotic Moon rover in a clean room...
Four engineers in white lab coats, yellow hard hats, and blue gloves and shoe covers surround a metal rover. Two engineers stand on stepladders as they fit a mast with attached instruments onto the rover.
This spectacular image showing the Moon’s shadow on Earth’s surface was acquired during a 20-second period starting at 2:59 p.m....
Black and white image of Earth with swirling white clouds and a dark shadow over North America from the Moon eclipsing the Sun.