Within the tempestuous Carina Nebula lies “Mystic Mountain.” This three-light-year-tall cosmic pinnacle, imaged by Hubble in 2010.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observation has captured the galaxy CGCG 396-2, an unusual multi-armed galaxy merger which lies around 520 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion.
Webb’s Fine Guidance Sensor Provides a Serendipitous Preview
NASA citizen science project, Jovian Vortex Hunter, seeks your help spotting vortices – spiral wind patterns – and other on Jupiter.
The last rays of an orbital sunset burst through Earth's horizon as the International Space Station flew 258 miles above Brazil.
An adult osprey, carrying a fish in its talons, prepares to land in its nest atop a speaker platform in the parking lot at Kennedy Space Center.
Most of Greenland's glaciers that empty into the ocean are at greater risk of rapid ice loss than previously understood.
Brightly glowing plumes of the Large Magellanic Cloud appear almost like an ocean current.
The CAPSTONE mission launched at 5:55 a.m. EDT (09:55 UTC) on Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from New Zealand.
CAPSTONE, the pathfinder for NASA’s lunar outpost, will test an orbit around the Moon that has never been flown before.
"A piece of my story that I think needs to get told is that broken crayons still color." – Tyrone McCoy, Public Affairs Specialist, NASA Headquarters
We're counting down to the release of the Webb Telescope’s first full-color images!
Near the center of the Milky Way lies this star-studded globular cluster, called Terzan 9 in the constellation Sagittarius.
Attendees try on Oculus headsets and experience the space station using virtual reality prior to the screening of “The Color of Space”.
General Order No. 3 by Union troops on June 19, 1865, marked the official end of slavery in Texas and the U.S.
The Progress Pride flag is seen flying at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building.
The brilliant cascade of stars through the middle of this image is the galaxy ESO 318-13.
Flag Day is celebrated on June 14 each year and commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777.
JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide speaks with students during a visit to Arlington Science Focus Elementary School
Unlike most globular clusters, Ruprecht 106 may be what astronomers call a single population globular cluster.
Galaxy clusters contain hundreds of galaxies and huge amounts of hot gas and dark matter.
The International Space Station orbits into a dawn 261 miles above a cloudy Pacific Ocean in this image from April 2022.
This November 1996 image from Magellan shows Dickinson, an impact crater in the northeastern Atalanta Region of Venus.
The rocket is scheduled to launch later in 2022.
The Apollo 1 monument at Arlington National Cemetery was dedicated on Thursday, June 2, 2022, in Arlington, Va.
This image features a spectacular set of rings around a black hole.
Hurricanes are the most powerful weather event on Earth. The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season extends from June 1 to November 30.
This new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope looks at two spiral galaxies, collectively known as Arp 303.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft opens its main parachutes as it lands at White Sands Missile Range’s Space Harbor, Wednesday, May 25, 2022.
Since the Apollo program, astronauts have documented (and contended with) how liquids behave differently in microgravity than they do on Earth.
NASA's InSight Mars lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a section of the spiral galaxy nicknamed the Needle’s Eye.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft launched from Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, May 19, 2022.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard is illuminated by spotlights on the launch pad.
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the central region of the gigantic elliptical galaxy NGC 474.
Dr. Kartik Sheth's career spans academia, non-profits, and government.
Quesst is what NASA is calling its mission to enable supersonic air travel over land.
Quesst is what NASA is calling its mission to enable supersonic air travel over land.
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image spotlights the giant elliptical galaxy, UGC 10143, at the heart of galaxy cluster, Abell 2147.
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image spotlights the giant elliptical galaxy, UGC 10143, at the heart of galaxy cluster, Abell 2147.
Nina Wang has more than a decae of experience in financial reporting and analysis, financial statement audits, and internal controls.
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins floats in the space station’s cupola, a direct nadir viewing window from which Earth and celestial objects are visible.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen shortly after it landed with NASA and ESA astronauts on Friday, May 6, 2022.
Black holes are hard to find. They have such strong gravity that light can’t escape them, so scientists must rely on clues from their surroundings to find them.
May 2-6, 2022, is Teacher Appreciation Week! At NASA, we know the importance of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education.
Misty Snopkowski is NASA’s program executive for the Commercial Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Development program.
NASA astronaut Victor Glover greets one of his youngest fans, 3-year-old Ezra Garrel.
In this image, World View’s Stratollite high-altitude balloon is inflated on the launch pad in Tucson, Arizona on April 9, 2022.
This Hubble Space Telescope image features two merging galaxies in the VV-689 system, nicknamed the Angel Wing.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a batch of the company's Starlink internet satellites lifts off from Launch Complex 40.
An orbital sunrise beams across Earth's horizon revealing silhouetted clouds above the South China Sea.
We're celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope's 32nd birthday with a stunning look at an unusual close-knit collection of five galaxies.
A vehicle carrying two members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission passed by the VAB as it returned to Launch Complex 39A.
Astronaut Kjell Lindgren speaks to members of the media after arriving att Kennedy Space Center, ahead of SpaceX’s Crew-4 mission.
In this image from April 10, 2022, sunlight glints off the Atlantic Ocean in this photograph from taken by the crew of the International Space Station.
NASA helped to create a web-based tool that helps park managers better understand the impact of outdoor lighting and noise on animal species in national parks.
This artist's impression is of a supermassive black hole that is inside the dust-shrouded core of a vigorously star-forming "starburst" galaxy.
What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
On April 12, 1981, NASA launched is first Space Transportation System, or space shuttle, mission, carrying astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen into orbit.
A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured in this image from Hubble.
SpaceX’s Axiom-1 is in the foreground on Launch Pad 39A with NASA’s Artemis I in the background on Launch Pad 39B on April 6, 2022.
SpaceX’s Axiom-1 is in the foreground on Launch Pad 39A with NASA’s Artemis I in the background on Launch Pad 39B on April 6, 2022.
Japan's Geiyo Archipelago, in the Seito Inland Sea, was once home to pirates.
NASA and industry partners are working towards a future that sees aviation meet cleaner sustainability standards.
Every winter, a layer of carbon dioxide frost (dry ice) forms on the surface of Mars.
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen at sunrise atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B, Monday, April 4, 2022.
Engineers and technicians are continuing to prepare for the Artemis I wet dress rehearsal test which is slated to begin on April 1 and conclude on April 3.
NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 pilot Bob Hines is pictured during a training session inside a mockup of the Crew Dragon vehicle at SpaceX Headquarters.
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, left, and cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, center, and Pyotr Dubrov are seen inside their Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft after landing.
Astronaut Mark Vande Hei arrived at the International Space Station on April 9, 2021, and will return home March 30, 2022, after spending 355 days in low-Earth orbit.
Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these events are around other stars.
Wally Funk delivers remarks after accepting the 2022 Michael Collins Trophy for Lifetime Achievement.
One of the last unopened Apollo-era lunar samples collected during Apollo 17 has been opened under the careful direction of lunar sample processors and curators.
Astronaut John Young, the pilot of the Gemini III mission, inspects his helmet in the ready room in preparation for the launch.
A new raft of discoveries marks a scientific high point: More than 5,000 planets are now confirmed to exist beyond our solar system.
This colorful image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and published in 2018, celebrated the observatory’s 28th anniversary of viewing the heavens.
Earth's Moon is seen rising behind NASA’s Space Launch System rocket.
NASA’s Space Launch Syste rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building.
Dr. Eugene N. Parker, visionary of heliophysics and namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, has passed away. He was 94.
In this image from August 2021, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei sits and reads while on the International Space Station.
An energetic outburst from an infant star streaks across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
This February 2022 image of Northrop Grummans's Cygnus cargo craft is pictured attached to the International Space Station.
The Pilbara in northwestern Australia exposes some of the oldest rocks on Earth, over 3.6 billion years old.
These engineers developed and tested Space Launch System software that will tell the rocket how to operate for the first 8 minutes of Artemis during launch and ascent.
The LAMP mission hopes to understand an often overlooked kind of aurora, called a pulsating aurora, and to test a theory on what causes them.
In this undated image form the 1960s, Nancy Grace Roman sits in her office in NASA Headquarters. Roman was the first chief astronomer for NASA.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped this view of a hill in Mars' Jezero Crater called "Santa Cruz" on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket, carrying NOAA's GOES-T, soars upward after lifting off from Space Launch Complex 41 on March 1, 2022.
Rosemary Dobbins was an artist at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
In this image, Glover celebrated his birthday during his stay on the station.
This striking image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases Arp 298, a stunning pair of interacting galaxies. Arp 298 – which comprises the two galaxies NGC 7469 and IC 5283 – lies roughly 200 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.
There are few artists in the aerospace industry whose career was as varied or accomplished as Ted Brown.
This image from 2020 shows a flame that was one of many ignited as part of the Flame Design investigation on the space station.
Melba Roy Mouton (1929-1990) was a mathematician and computer programmer in NASA’s Trajectory and Geodynamics Division.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover landed on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021, and took this selfie over a rock nicknamed “Rochette,” on Sept. 10, 2021.
A top view shows the wing loading test configuration of a F/A-18E from the Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Maryland.
This artist's concept shows exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbiting around its host red dwarf star.
Dr. Lyndsey McMillon-Brown at NASA’s Glenn Research Center leads a study of solar cells made from a material called perovskite.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space imagery. The image shows Arp 282, an interacting galaxy pair composed of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 169 (bottom) and the galaxy IC 1559 (top).
This view of Jupiter was taken by Voyager 1.
Astronaut Mark Vande Hei peers at the Earth below from inside the seven-windowed cupola, the International Space Station's window to the world.
Mathematician Daniel G. Nichols, who worked in the Real-Time Program Development Branch, Mission Planning and Analysis Division, is photographed in NASA's Manned Space Center.
Ths January 2022 image shows the first rays of an orbital sunrise as seen from the International Space Station as it orbited above Venezuela.
Divers at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) in Houston are setting the stage for future moonwalk training by simulating lunar lighting conditions.
This object is, in fact, a pair: a white dwarf star that steadily burns at a relatively cool temperature and a highly variable red giant.
The bright Sun dissects the airglow above Earth's horizon in this view photographed with a digital still camera from during the STS-107 mission.
To learn how ocean water is melting glaciers, NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission extensively surveyed the coastline of the world’s largest island.
In this image taken in 1985, four members of the Challenger STS-51L crew train on the flight deck of the shuttle crew compartment.
On Jan. 27, 1967, tragedy struck on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy during a preflight test for Apollo 204 (AS-204).
This colorized schlieren image is of a small-scale model of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology airplane.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is designing mission concepts to survive the planet's extreme temperatures and atmospheric pressure.
The spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 3318 are lazily draped across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This spiral galaxy lies in the constellation Vela and is roughly 115 light-years away from Earth.
In this image from Jan. 9, 2022, NASA astronaut Kayla Barron peered out from a window inside the International Space Station's cupola.
Retired U.S. Air Force Honorary Brigadier General Charles McGee, left, spoke with NASA astronaut Alvin Drew in 2020.
This image shows the Highfield drill hole, on Vera Rubin Ridge in Gale crater on Mars, made by NASA’s Curiosity rover in its search for rock samples. Just recently, scientists announced that an analysis of rock samples collected by the rover were enriched in carbon 12, a type of carbon that on Earth is associated with biological processes.
This image, captured by the Landsat-8 satellite, shows the view over Western Australia on May 12, 2013.
Scores of baby stars shrouded by dust are revealed in this infrared image of the star-forming region NGC 2174.
Our Milky Way's central black hole has a leak.
Legendary actor and diplomat, Sidney Poitier, visited JPL in 1979.
This image shows the James Webb Space Telescope atop its launch vehicle, but before it was encapsulated in the rocket fairing.
This image shows knots of cold, dense interstellar gas where new stars are forming.
2021 saw significant milestones achieved in the assembly of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft (QueSST), and all eyes now look forward to a pivotal 2022.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard is seen at Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, launched aboard Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021.
