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ISS006-E-18382 (January 2003) --- Bright city lights along the coastline and interior of the eastern coast of the...
Engineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston used light waves to align the James Webb Space Telescope’s...
Professor Stuart Williams from University of Louisville talks about the work with NASA Glenn Research Center onboard...
Chris Lant provides an overview tour of the NASA Glenn Research Center’s Space Experiments Laboratory, which is part...
Professor Anna-Lisa Paul from the University of Florida explains the APEX-3-2 experiment using the Light Microscopy...
Dr. Jeffrey D. Smith, Professor Anna-Lisa Paul, and Dr. Patricia Parsons-Wingerter talk about space biology...
This infrared photograph shows the uplink laser beacon for NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)...
This artist concept illustrates a young, red dwarf star surrounded by three planets. NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer...
In this image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, there are at least two distinct geologic units, a light-toned...
Saturn moon Epimetheus moves in front of the larger moon Janus as seen by NASA Cassini spacecraft. The moons are lit...
This is a rare glance at the dark side of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Light backscattered from dust particles...
This video demonstrates the hiss-like radio noise generated by electrons moving along magnetic field lines from the...
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer captured this colorful image of the reflection nebula IRAS 12116-6001. This...
Radiation and winds from massive stars have blown a cavity into the surrounding dust and gas, creating the Trifid...
The tip of the wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this new view from NASA Great Observatories....
NASA Cassini spacecraft peers down through the hazy atmosphere of Saturn moon Titan to view the dark region called...
This MOC image shows cracks layered, light-toned outcrops of sedimentary rock in Becquerel Crater. The outcrops are...
Light-toned soil deposits might be widely distributed on the flanks and valley floors of the Columbia Hills region...
This psychedelic view of Saturn and its rings is a composite made from images taken with the Cassini spacecraft...
This image shows two flat-topped, layered rocks with angular edges almost side by side, except they are separated by...
This three-frequency space radar image shows the city of Samara, Russia in pink and light green right of center....
These images were obtained by the Dawn spacecraft on July 23, 2011. The bottom two images are false-color, where...
This Mars Global Surveyor MGS Mars Orbiter Camera MOC image shows light-toned, layered rock outcrops in Eos Chaos,...
NASA Kepler mission has discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a...