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Ground testing for the first confocal Light Microscopy Microscope (LMM) Experiment. Procter and Gamble is working...
This visible-light image of the Fireworks galaxy (NGC 6946) comes from the Digital Sky Survey and is overlaid with...
Galaxy NGC 1068 is shown in visible light and X-rays in this composite image. High-energy X-rays (magenta) captured...
Two images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity rover depict the change in the color of light...
NASA scientists have just released the first new global map of Earth at night since 2012. This nighttime look at our...
TOI 700, a planetary system 100 light-years away in the constellation Dorado, is home to TOI 700 d, the first...
A supermassive black hole is depicted in this artist's concept, surrounded by a swirling disk of material falling...
This very steep (more than 60 degrees) scarp shows mass wasting activity every year in the early northern spring,...
ISS029-E-031157 (15 Oct. 2011) --- One of the Expedition 29 crew members aboard the International Space Station...
Several small sunspots appeared this week, giving NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory a chance to illustrate their...
Comet C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto as imaged in multiple exposures of infrared light by the NEOWISE space telescope. The...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Getting ready for the STS-123 mission, space shuttle Endeavour begins rollout to...
ISS029-E-031143 (15 Oct. 2011) --- One of the Expedition 29 crew members aboard the International Space Station...
This animation shows the events that serve as the basis of an astrophysics technique called "echo mapping," also...
The first growth test of crops in the Advanced Plant Habitat aboard the International Space Station yielded great...
NASA released the first full-color images and data from the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12. These images...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Dramatically reflected by the waters of the extensive lagoonal sysem adjacent to Launch...
The STS-118 astronauts gather for a light snack before donning their flight suits. This will be the first flight for...
A pair of relatively small (but frenetic) active regions rotated into view, spouting off numerous small flares and...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Lighting up the launch pad below, a Boeing Delta II (7326) rocket is silhouetted in...
NASA's SPHEREx mission will operate in low Earth orbit, detecting hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies and...
A new model is bringing scientists a step closer to understanding the kinds of light signals produced when two...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A ceremonial "flipping of the switch" officially begins operation of NASA's first large-scale...
ISS032-E-017635 (9 Aug. 2012) --- A nighttime view of Kuwait City is featured in this image photographed by an...