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Engineers in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in April 2023 examine the...
NASA's three Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the SpitzerSpace Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray...
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), the home galaxy of the...
This artist's conception illustrates the decline in our universe's "birth-rate" over time. When the universe was...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The historic Cape Canaveral Light, now owned by the U.S. Air Force, has resided in its...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Researchers have activated the red, blue and green LED lights on the Veggie plant growth...
In the mobile service tower on Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the first half of the fairing is in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida is home to the historic Cape Canaveral Light, a...
This collage of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's northern hemisphere and rings as viewed with...
This annotated map of depicts the areas on the surface of Jupiter's moon Ganymede that were imaged by the Jovian...
In the mobile service tower on Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the first half of the fairing is moved...
This mosaic of a star field was made from three images captured Dec. 4, 2024, by star tracker cameras aboard NASA's...
Observations by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft show a global view of Mars in intermediate-energy, or...
Designed by the mission crew members, the STS-61 crew insignia depicts the astronaut symbol superimposed against the...
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. – The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station lighthouse takes on a warm glow as...
NASA's Perseverance rover was traveling in the channel of an ancient river, Neretva Vallis, when it captured this...
Students Alex Diaz and Riki Munakata of California Polytechnic State University testing the LightSail CubeSat....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the mobile service tower on Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the first...
This shining disc of a spiral galaxy sits approximately 25 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation...
The first of a series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) over three days (Aug. 20-22), this bulbous CME certainly...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A daisy thrives amidst the natural vegetation surrounding the historic Cape Canaveral Light...
When Galileo first observed Venus displaying a crescent phase, he excitedly wrote to Kepler (in anagram) of Venus...
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. – This view looking up contrasts the black and white lighthouse at Cape...
Astronomers have used an x-ray image to make the first detailed study of the behavior of high-energy particles...