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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – In Orbital Sciences’ hangar on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California,...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Orbital Sciences technicians closely monitor the second section of the Pegasus...
The grand opening of NASA’s new, world-class laboratory for research into future space transportation technologies...
NASA’s Landing and Recovery team, the U.S. Navy, and Department of Defense aboard the USS John P. Murtha deploy...
Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) image feature
What questions do you have about NASA’s #DARTMission? Join our experts Tuesday, Nov. 23 at 4 p.m. EST. NASA’s Double...
Have you seen Comet NEOWISE in the sky? ☄️ Visiting from the most distant parts of our solar system, it made its...
The bulbous nose of one of NASA's two Global Hawk unmanned high-altitude aircraft houses communications and sensor...
One of NASA's two Global Hawk unmanned high-altitude aircraft shows off its blue-and-white livery in front of its...
This Global Hawk unmanned aircraft is one of two that are used by NASA for Earth science missions and by Northrop...
One of NASA's two Global Hawk high-altitude unmanned science aircraft displays its contours outside its hangar at...
On August 29, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured this...
Using the “day-night band” (DNB) of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), the Suomi National...
On August 29, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured this...
On August 29, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured this...
A recent study led by researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California that seawater will...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- This is a version of space shuttle Discovery's orbiter tribute, or OV-103, which hangs in...
This starfield was imaged by NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) moments before...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- This is a printable version of space shuttle Discovery's orbiter tribute, or OV-103, which...
Engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) have been testing Magnetic Launch Assist Systems, formerly...
An engineer inspects the surface of four mid-wavelength infrared science detectors for NASA’s Near-Earth Object...
The sunshade for NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission towers above a fixture at supplier Applied...
NASA image acquired August 29, 2012 1:57 a.m EDT Hurricane Isaac lit up by moonlight as it spins over the city of...
Asteroid 1997 QK1 is shown to be an elongated, peanut-shaped near-Earth object in this series of 28 radar images...