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Mars is looking mighty fine in this portrait nabbed by the Hubble Space Telescope on a near close approach! Read...
NASA image release March 2, 2012 This composite image shows the distribution of dark matter, galaxies, and hot gas...
A new NASA-developed, laser-based space communication system will enable higher rates of satellite communications...
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over Australia's Cape Barren Island and captured an image of phytoplankton...
Mars is looking mighty fine in this portrait nabbed by the Hubble Space Telescope on a near close approach! Read...
(Aral Sea: left 2014 and right 2000, 1960 extent black line) In the 1960s, the Soviet Union undertook a major water...
Tidal disruption event Every galaxy has a black hole at its center. Usually they are quiet, without gas accretions,...
The dark squares that make up the checkerboard pattern in this image are fields of a sort—fields of seaweed. Along...
A member of the BARREL team prepares a payload for launch from Esrange Space Center on Aug. 29, 2016. Throughout...
New imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope is revealing details never before seen on Jupiter. Hubble’s new Jupiter...
Watching a BARREL balloon – and the instruments dangling below – float up over the SANAE IV research base in...
A trip past the sun may have selectively altered the production of one form of water in a comet – an effect not seen...
NASA image acquired: June 03, 2012 This scene is to the northwest of the recently named crater Magritte, in...
Generally the old saying “where there is smoke, there is fire” rings true, but when thick, hot smoke rises high...
A thick blanket of low clouds covered the English Channel, Celtic Sea and Irish Sea on March 13, 2014. The fog also...
Engineers and technicians manually deployed the secondary mirror support structure (SMSS) of the James Webb Space...
This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. The black region in the...
This planetary nebula's simple, graceful appearance is thought to be due to perspective: our view from Earth looking...
The brightly glowing plumes seen in this image are reminiscent of an underwater scene, with turquoise-tinted...
On Jan. 22, 2015, robotic flight controllers successfully installed NASA’s Cloud Aerosol Transport System (CATS)...
An iceberg as viewed from the bow of the RRS Ernest Shackleton a few days before the BARREL team reached Halley...
This animation shows the events that serve as the basis of an astrophysics technique called "echo mapping," also...
The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is known as NGC 3597. It is the product of a collision...
Prior to launch, the BARREL team works on the payload from the launch pad at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna,...