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In October of 2017, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) celebrates one hundred days of collecting scientific data at...
iss068e021558 (11/10/2022) --- A view of the ISSET-Nanoracks-UWS 1 investigation shown in the cupola module aboard...
How big is space? It’s one of the most mind-bending questions we can ask because the deeper we look, the more the...
ISS027-E-017237 (23 April 2011) --- European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli, Expedition 27 flight engineer,...
This artist's concept shows a view from above the Lunar Flashlight spacecraft, a six-unit CubeSat designed to search...
iss068e021563 (11/10/2022) --- A view of the ISSET-Nanoracks-UWS 1 investigation shown in the cupola module aboard...
This artist's concept shows a black hole with an accretion disk -- a flat structure of material orbiting the black...
This is a reconstructed view of Jupiter's northern lights through the filters of Juno's Ultraviolet Imaging...
How do you measure a cloud? Tim Bencic does it with lasers. The NASA Glenn engineer invented a tomography system for...
ISS027-E-017236 (23 April 2011) --- European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli, Expedition 27 flight engineer,...
iss068e021559(11/10/2022) --- A view of the ISSET-Nanoracks-UWS 1 investigation shown in the cupola module aboard...
The actigraphy device that select Artemis II astronauts will wear on their wrists during their mission around the...
iss059e117376 (6/22/2019) --- Photo documentation taken during VEG-04 Water Check and Mass Measurement Device...
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy cluster MACSJ0717.5+3745. This is one of six...
iss059e117393 (6/23/2019) --- Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut David Saint-Jacques is photographed during...
The Boeing Delta II rocket lights the evening sky as STEREO heads into space. STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations...
A light house and weather station is seen at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Tanegashima Space...
This plot shows data obtained from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment,...
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the spiral galaxy NGC 2841, located about 46 million...
The High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³), seen here, is one of two instruments that will be...
Each of these Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveals four distorted images of a background quasar (an extremely...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. - At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, light beams are emitted during LIDAR...
On Nov. 7, 2018 for just under an hour, SDO viewed a lunar transit, when the Moon partially blocked SDO's view of...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the Space Life Sciences Laboratory, or SLSL, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in...