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Glenn Research Center 75th Anniversary Sign
On September 8, 2016, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft began its journey to near-Earth asteroid Bennu. As the sun began...
ISS046e015697 (01/20/2016) --- NASA astronaut Scott Kelly took this majestic image of the Earth at night...
On July 24, 2016, NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, captured a mid-level solar flare: a sudden...
Solar material repeatedly bursts from the sun in this close-up captured on July 9-10, 2016, by NASA’s Solar Dynamics...
Early in the morning of Sept. 1, 2016, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, caught both the Earth and moon...
In the same way that two eyes give humans a three-dimensional perception of the world around us, the twin spacecraft...
Solar material twists above the sun’s surface in this close-up captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on June...
ISS046e048360 (02/25/2016) --- NASA astronaut Tim Kopra prepares to participate in the Airway Monitoring experiment....
ISS046e047972 (02/25/2016) --- ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Timothy Peake participates in the Airway...
This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows cratered terrain typical of Ceres, with a small bright crater...
An active region on the sun — an area of intense and complex magnetic fields — has rotated into view on the sun and...
The low angle of sunlight along the slim crescent of Saturn's moon Enceladus (313 miles or 504 kilometers across)...
Along with the visible light and warmth constantly emitted by our sun comes a whole spectrum of X-ray and...
In San Bernardino County, California, the Blue Cut fire burned ferociously for one week starting Aug. 16, 2016. By...
This image, taken by the JunoCam imager on NASA's Juno spacecraft, highlights the seventh of eight features forming...
This amateur-processed image was taken on Dec. 11, 2016, at 9:27 a.m. PST (12:27 p.m. EST), as NASA's Juno...
This false color view of Jupiter's polar haze was created by citizen scientist Gerald Eichstädt using data from the...
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft highlights Axomama Crater, the small crater shown to the right of center. It...
Project MIDAS, a United Kingdom-based group that studies the Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica, reported Aug. 18, 2016,...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover autonomously selects some of the targets for the laser and telescopic camera of the...
Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the TV series "Star Trek," which first aired September 8th,1966, this...
Title: W-8 Fan Acoustic Casing Treatment Test on the Source Diagnostic Test Rotor Alone Hardware Program: Advanced...
A new model has been developed to look at how potential landslide activity is changing around the world. A global...