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In 2016, former astronaut and climate scientist Dr. Piers Sellers visited Thule, Greenland, one of the home bases...
GPM Deputy Project Scientist Gail Skofronick-Jackson discusses GPM's snowfall measurement capabilities and the...
Built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., the GPM spacecraft travelled roughly 7,300 miles...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The orbiter Discovery backs out of the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3 for the short...
This frame from an animation shows a kind of stellar explosion called a Fast-Evolving Luminous Transient. In this...
ISS026-E-027287 (16 Feb. 2011) --- The Expedition 26 crew member aboard the International Space Station who snapped...
A forward segment is being lowered into the Transient Pressure Test Article (TPTA) test stand at thw Marshall Space...
TITUSVILLE, Fla. -- Lockheed Martin technicians in the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla.,...
VANDENBERG AFB – Orbital Sciences team members move the second half of the payload fairing before it is placed over...
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. - A mission logo decal for the launch of NASA's IRIS solar observatory aboard an Orbital...
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – Members of the IRIS and Pegasus launch teams working in a hangar at Vandenberg prepare the...
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum curator Jeremy Kinney, right, and NASA astronaut Drew Feustel, left, are...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew within 8,000 miles of dwarf planet Pluto on 14 July 2015. Our view of this cold,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The mated Pegasus XL and Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite arrive at Cape...
ISS004-E-10171 (20 April 2002) --- Astronaut Daniel W. Bursch, Expedition Four flight engineer, wearing a Russian...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- KSC payloads processing employees work to reservice the Microgravity Science...
NASA's SPHEREx observatory is lifted and installed onto a vibration table in the Z-axis configuration at BAE Systems...
In this animation, TEMPEST-D — a weather-observing satellite the size of a cereal box — captured imagery of...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A fire burns in the background as members of the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service operate...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Multi-Payload Processing Facility, NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer is prepared...
This map-projected view of Ceres was created from images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft during its high-altitude...
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – Members of the IRIS and Pegasus launch teams working in a hangar at Vandenberg connect the...
STS056-04-004 (8-17 April 1993) --- Aboard Discovery, Astronaut Stephen S. Oswald, Pilot, talks to amateur radio...
From left to right, Dr. Stephen Petranek, MARS scientific advisor and co-executive producer; Gareth Edwards, film...