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Overnight on October 4-5, 2012, a mass of energetic particles from the atmosphere of the Sun were flung out into...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Apollo astronauts and their families tour the astronaut crew quarters in the Operations and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Apollo astronauts and their families tour the astronaut crew quarters in the Operations and...
The events surrounding the Big Bang were so cataclysmic that they left an indelible imprint on the fabric of the...
In this illustration showing NEO Surveyor, NASA's next-generation near-Earth object hunter, the spacecraft floats in...
What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming...
The powerful primary mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to detect the light from distant...
This annotated image of Mars' Jezero Crater depicts the route NASA's Perseverance rover will take during its first...
ISS028-E-010162 (29 June 2011) --- Sault Ste Marie, Ontario and Michigan are featured in this image photographed by...
Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the TV series "Star Trek," which first aired September 8th,1966, this...
This is the first photograph ever taken on the surface of the planet Mars. It was obtained by Viking 1 just minutes...
This starfield was imaged by NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) moments before...
The instrument enclosure of NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor is prepared for critical environmental tests inside...
Some 290 million years ago, a star much like the sun wandered too close to the central black hole of its galaxy....
This irregular dwarf galaxy's closes neighbor is 2.3 million light years away, so yeah, we're calling it...
After arriving at the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) in Logan, Utah, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope celebrated its 12th anniversary with a new digital calendar showcasing some of the...
For the first time, two space-based telescopes have teamed up with ground-based observatories to observe a...
The instrument enclosure for NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor is prepared for environmental testing inside the...
Zoom into the Andromeda galaxy. The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping view of...
In the 19th century, astronomer V. M. Slipher first discovered a hat-like object that appeared to be rushing away...
The instrument enclosure for NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor on May 22, 2025, is seen in a clean room at the...
Technicians and engineers inspect NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor's instrument enclosure at the Space...
The front panel of this image cube shows the true-color view of an area in northwest Nevada observed by NASA's Earth...