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Some of the first images from NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of...
This time-lapse video, which has been sped up by 24 times, uses an engineering model of one of the instruments...
Caption: These SDO images from 7:25 p.m. EST on Feb. 24, 2014, show the first moments of an X-class flare in...
A NASA sounding rocket experiment has detected a surprising surplus of infrared light in the dark space between...
Astronomers have for the first time caught a glimpse of the earliest stages of massive galaxy construction. The...
This image captures the stunning NGC 6535, a globular cluster 22,000 light-years away in the constellation of...
The front panel of this image cube features the true-color view of an area in southwest Libya observed by NASA's...
Caption: These SDO images from 7:25 p.m. EST on Feb. 24, 2014, show the first moments of an X-class flare in...
Image release August 16, 2012 Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have caught two clusters...
Images of the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are overlaid on a map of the surrounding area, our...
These six narrow-angle color images were made from the first ever portrait of the solar system taken by NASA’s...
The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping bird’s-eye view of a portion of the...
Image release date September 22, 2010 To view a video of this image go here: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5014452203...
NASA image release August 23, 2012 What looks like a giant golden spider weaving a web of cables and cords, is...
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment and four Get Away Special (GAS) payload canisters are secure in...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to create this panorama of its first drill site....
This mosaic of images combines views captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft as it made the first dive of the...
Rain, snow, hail, ice, and every slushy mix in between make up the precipitation that touches everyone on our...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In Launch Complex 39 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a worker installs the metal...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Researchers document the growth of the ground control plants in the Veggie plant growth...
This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows Messier 96, a spiral galaxy just over 35 million light-years away in...
Inside the Integrated Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, a crane is used to begin...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Researchers acquire the ionized water for the Veggie plant growth system inside a control...
This photograph was taken during the final assembly phase of the Space Shuttle light weight external tanks (LWT) 5,...