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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Dwayne Light (left), director of Florida Operations, Astrotech, and Jim Adams, deputy...
This striking NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the galaxy UGC 477, located just over 110 million...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The pond near Launch Pad 39B reflects the blaze of light created by the liftoff of...
Racing to a smooth, predawn touchdown at Edwards Air Force Base, Space Shuttle Discovery's safe arrival punctuated...
Reflected sunlight is the source of the illumination for visible wavelength images such as the one above. However,...
The primary calibration target for Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Space Shuttle Endeavour arrives at Launch Pad 39A in the dim early morning light, atop...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Riding a tower of flames, space shuttle Discovery lights the night sky as it races toward...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In Launch Complex 39 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, one of the walls of the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – From left, Jim Smodell, a technician with SGT, and George Guerra, a quality control engineer...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover viewed this expanse while looking out across a region filled with low ridges known as...
View of the Glenn Research Center Hangar from the Cleveland Hopkins Airport Runway during a testing flight on June...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- On Pad 17-B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the third solid rocket booster joins two...
AS15-98-13311 (31 July 1971) --- The solar corona, as photographed from the Apollo 15 spacecraft about one minute...
This image is from an animation that shows the evolution of the 2018 Mars global dust storm from late May to...
The dark, smooth-surfaced object at the center of this Oct. 30, 2016, image from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's...
Preparations are underway to lift the first half of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket payload fairing for...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The first half of the payload fairing is moved into place around NASA's Gamma-Ray Large Area...
NGC 3603 is a bustling region of star birth in the Carina spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy, about 20,000...
True and false color views of Jupiter from NASA's Galileo spacecraft show an equatorial "hotspot" on Jupiter. These...
STS088-S-001 (September 1998) --- Designed by the crew members, this STS-88 patch commemorates the first assembly...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- On Pad 17-B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, three solid rocket boosters are in the...
Range : 4.1 million km. ( 2.5 million miles ) P-29466B/W Voyager 2 has discovered two 'shepard' satellites...
This picture from Mars Pathfinder was taken at 9:30 AM in the martian morning (2:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time), after...