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S133-E-007425 (28 Feb. 2011) --- NASA astronauts Cady Coleman, Expedition 26 flight engineer, Alvin Drew and Michael...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space shuttle Endeavour lights up the night sky, as well as the water nearby, as it...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Flames produced by the launch of space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-123 mission light...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Lighting up the night sky, as well as the water nearby, space shuttle Endeavour blazes...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The clouds of smoke and steam generated during liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour on...
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has provisionally detected the faint afterglow of the explosive merger of two neutron...
Engineers and technicians examine and test the first of NASA's Europa Clipper's science instruments to be delivered...
P-34712 Range: 1.1 million kilometers (683,000 miles) This wide-angle Voyager 2 image, taken through the camera's...
This illustration shows NASA's Lunar Flashlight, with its four solar arrays deployed, shortly after launch. The...
Every full moon, Landsat 8 turns its back on Earth. As the satellite's orbit takes it to the nighttime side of the...
This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the...
This x-ray image of the Cassiopeia A (CAS A) supernova remnant is the official first light image of the Chandra...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recorded this view of the sun setting at the close of the mission's 956th Martian day,...
Sara Susca, deputy payload manager and payload systems engineer for the NASA's SPHEREx mission, looks up at one of...
Part of one of the protective photon shields for NASA's SPHEREx telescope are shown here being assembled at Applied...
On Sept. 13, 2015, as NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, kept up its constant watch on the sun, its view was...
The Small Magellanic Cloud, shown here, is a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. The image includes data from the...
The latest spectra from New Horizons Ralph instrument reveal an abundance of methane ice, but with striking...
This image of the Andromeda galaxy, or M31, includes data from the ESA (European Space Agency) Herschel mission,...
S71-58222 (31 July-2 Aug. 1971) --- During the lunar eclipse that occurred during the Apollo 15 lunar landing...
This image of the Triangulum galaxy, or M33, includes data from the ESA (European Space Agency) Herschel mission,...
Amelia Quan, the mechanical integration lead for NASA's SPHEREx mission, is seen with a V-groove radiator, a piece...
This image provides the clearest ever view of galaxy NGC 949, which lies over 30 million light-years away in the...
This vibrant image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our...