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This artist concept depicts Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the...
This crescent view of Earth Moon in infrared, blue-green, and red wavelengths comes from a camera test by NASA Mars...
This is an artist rendering of the spacecraft FINESSE orbiting above Earth. Proposed for launch in 2016 as part of...
This vertical profile view from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer TES instrument on NASA Aura satellite depicts...
The gullies on a Martian sand dune in this trio of images from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter deceptively resemble...
Artist rendering of NASA’s Stardust returning to Earth. Stardust is the first U.S. space mission dedicated to the...
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows one of these icy lobate features wrapping around a small...
This image shows the dust density and the growth of structure in a simulated disk, which extends about 100 times...
This most recent artist rendering shows NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory OCO-2, one of five new NASA Earth science...
This artist concept shows the NASA WISE spacecraft, in its orbit around Earth. In September of 2013, engineers will...
At Mars North Pole is a dome of icy layers ranging up to 2 kilometers thick, roughly analogous to the Earth ice caps...
Luna 16 was the first robotic mission to land on the Moon on basaltic plains of Mare Fecunditatis and return a...
Artist rendering of the Soil Moisture Active Passive SMAP satellite. The width of the region scanned on Earth...
Kepler-20f is the closest object to the Earth in terms of size ever discovered. With an orbital period of 20 days...
iss072e518202 (Jan. 23, 2025) --- This long-duration photograph highlights the city lights of Mexico's Yucatan...
The cameras on NASA Cassini spacecraft captured this rare look at Earth and its moon from Saturn orbit on July 19,...
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows cones with summit pits that are very similar to cinder cones...
This most recent artist rendering shows NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory OCO-2, one of five new NASA Earth science...
This artist concept shows NASA Dawn spacecraft heading toward the dwarf planet Ceres. When Dawn arrives, it will be...
This chart shows, on the top row, artist concepts of the seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 with their orbital periods,...
The International Space Station is a modern marvel. Only 400 kilometers (250 miles) above our heads, it streaks...
Scientists using data from NASA's Kepler mission have confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet orbiting in the...
One of the world's most active volcanoes, Sakura-jima in southern-most Kyushu, Japan, erupts dozens of times a year....
S77-E-5073 (22 May 1996) --- From its position at 175 statute miles above Earth, the Space Shuttle Endeavour has...