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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Brilliant lights illuminate the mobile launcher platform and crawler transporter as...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – As dawn lights the sky on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the...
NASA image captured October 7, 2010 View a video of this event here: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5099028189 This was...
On Dec. 7, 1968, an Atlas-Centaur rocket carrying NASA’s heaviest and most ambitious uncrewed satellite to date...
On Feb. 11, 2010, NASA launched an unprecedented solar observatory into space. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- At Pad 17-B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a second solid rocket booster is raised...
P-29519BW Range: 500,000 kilometers (300,000 miles) Several craters are seen on the surface of 1986U1, one of the...
NASA's SPHEREx mission will create the first all-sky spectroscopic survey in the near-infrared, detecting hundreds...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA'S Kennedy Space Center, a waning moon, upper left, cannot compete with the lights...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- On Pad 17-B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the third solid rocket booster is lifted...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- At Pad 17-B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a second solid rocket booster joins the...
This is the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission crew portrait. Pictured from left to right are: Thomas K. Mattingly II,...
Aerial view of the 8- by 6-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel in its original configuration at the National Advisory...
This image of the suspected Black Hole, Cygnus X-1, was the first object seen by the High Energy Astronomy...
In this image, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) observes an impact crater with associated bright deposits...
Saturn's cloud belts generally move around the planet in a circular path, but one feature is slightly different. The...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The blue cones of light, known as shock or mach diamonds, beneath Space Shuttle...
These turbulent clouds are on top of the world at Saturn. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Saturn's...
This image provides the clearest ever view of galaxy NGC 949, which lies over 30 million light-years away in the...
NASA image release April 27, 2012 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been at the cutting edge of research into...
For 40 years, NASA has expanded our view of the universe with space telescopes that detect infrared light, which is...
NASA Astronaut Randy Bresnik talks about the power created when the twin five-segment solid rocket boosters light up...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will use highly sensitive cameras to allow scientists to see a metal-rich asteroid that’s...
These mosaics of Jupiter's night side show the Jovian aurora at approximately 45 minute intervals as the auroral...