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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, lightning towers are being constructed to...
Juno's Radiation Monitoring Investigation used the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) star camera to collect this high...
The ALOFT mission, Airborne Lightning Observatory for Fly’s eye simulator and Terrestrial gamma ray flashes, is a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – With the backdrop of a blue sky and the blue Atlantic Ocean, workers are constructing the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – With the backdrop of a blue sky and the blue Atlantic Ocean, workers are constructing the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At left, the payload canister for Space Shuttle Discovery is lifted from its canister...
Lightning field study devices are visible on a Cessna Citation aircraft during flight over Central Florida. The...
Lightning field study devices are visible on a Cessna Citation aircraft during flight over Central Florida. The...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the water tower and lightning protection system,...
The small satellite, with a big mission, is appropriately named "Firefly." Sponsored by the National Science...
ISS043E125478 (04/18/2015) -- A golden sunset on the Earth is captured in this image taken from the International...
iss073e0415606 (June 21, 2025) --- The International Space Station soars 259 miles above Cambodia in this...
iss071e606709 (Aug. 17, 2024) --- Lightning (at right) illuminates the clouds in this photograph from the...
iss071e620932 (Aug. 20, 2024) --- Lightning (at center) illuminates the storm clouds above China near the coast of...
iss067e270871 (Aug. 17, 2022) --- A cloudy, south Indian Ocean between Africa and Antarctica, with lightning storms...
Earth observation taken during a night pass by an Expedition 36 crew member on board the International Space Station...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A large crawler crane travels up the ramp toward Launch Pad 39B. At the top can be...
A view of the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft atop the mobile launcher on Launch Pad 39B at...