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Images depicting NASA’s Saturn V Rocket are projected onto the Washington Monument as part of an event to kick off...
This visualization shows sea surface height measurements in the Gulf Stream off the coast of North Carolina and...
The Washington Monument is lit as part of an event to kick off the nation's 250th birthday year, Wednesday, Dec. 31,...
Images depicting NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket are projected onto the Washington Monument as part of an...
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the southern latitude Hale Crater, a rather large, pristine...
Images depicting NASA missions are projected onto the Washington Monument as part of an event to kick off the...
This colorful image shows a nebula – a cloud of gas and dust in space – captured by NASA's now-retired Spitzer Space...
A close-up view the NASA insignia in front of the entrance to the new headquarters building on April 3, 2019, at...
iss066e135088 (2/3/2022) --- A view of the deployed Light-1 CubeSat. The Light-1 CubeSat focuses on the detection of...
A view of some of the design elements in the lobby of the new headquarters building on April 3, 2019, at NASA’s...
Dr. Harry Whelan, a pediatric Neurologist at the Medical Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and professor of...
The Galaxy Evolution Explorer was launched on April 28, 2003. Its mission is to study the shape, brightness, size...
A view of some of the work stations in the new headquarters building on April 3, 2019, at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
A view of the front of the new headquarters building on April 3, 2019, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida....
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscope Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has identified a candidate pulsar in Andromeda -- the...
In this lunar eclipse viewed from Merritt Island, Fla., at midnight, the full moon takes on a dark red color because...
iss073e0515603 (Aug. 24, 2025) --- Shanghai, China, situated on the Yangtze River where it meets the East China Sea,...
This image shows lettuce plants growing in a plant chamber during the preflight testing of Project Rapunzel. The...
Bright white light (left) and blue light (upper right) appear on the solar panels of the Stardust spacecraft during...
iss049e028948 (10/5/2016) --- Photographic documentation taken during Solid State Lighting Assembly (SSLA)...
A view of the Kennedy Space Center director’s office suite on the seventh floor of the new headquarters building on...
In this lunar eclipse viewed from Merritt Island, Fla., at 11:55 p.m., the full moon takes on a dark red color...
A view of some of the work stations in the new headquarters building on April 3, 2019, at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
A view of the cafeteria area inside the new headquarters building on April 3, 2019, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...