Japan’s HTV-9 Cargo Craft Helps Supply the Space Station
Japan’s resupply ship, the H-II Transfer Vehicle-9 (HTV-9), is pictured attached to the International Space Station‘s Harmony module. Stowed inside…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Produces Nightingale Mosaic
This view of sample site Nightingale on asteroid Bennu is a mosaic of images collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Teams Up With Observatories Around Solar System for 4th Solar Encounter
At the heart of understanding our space environment is the knowledge that conditions throughout space — from the Sun to…
An Astronaut’s View of Work
On June 26, 2020, spacewalkers Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy completed the first of two scheduled spacewalks to replace batteries…
Mapping the Early Universe with NASA’s Webb Telescope
Astronomers and engineers have designed telescopes, in part, to be “time travelers.” The farther away an object is, the longer…
Young Giant Planet Offers Clues to Formation of Exotic Worlds
Jupiter-size planets orbiting close to their stars have upended ideas about how giant planets form. Finding young members of this…
NASA Observes Large Saharan Dust Plume Over Atlantic Ocean
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite observed a huge Saharan dust plume streaming over the North Atlantic Ocean, beginning on June 13.…
Are Planets with Oceans Common in the Galaxy? It’s Likely, NASA Scientists Find
Several years ago, planetary scientist Lynnae Quick began to wonder whether any of the more than 4,000 known exoplanets, or…
Watch a 10-Year Time Lapse of Sun From NASA’s SDO
As of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory – SDO – has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over…
Bringing Einstein’s Concepts to Life Through Art
One of an artist’s most fundamental characteristics is a capacity to bridge the gap between imagination and illustration and bring…
Piercing the Dark Birthplaces of Massive Stars with Webb
High-mass stars, which are eight or more times the mass of our Sun, live hard and die young. They often…
NASA Releases Concept Images of All-Electric X-57 in Final Configuration
This artist’s concept image shows NASA’s first all-electric X-plane, the X-57 Maxwell, flying shortly after takeoff in its final configuration…
Hubble Probes Colorful Galaxy
This image displays a swirling spiral galaxy named NGC 2906. The blue speckles seen scattered across this galaxy are clusters…
Rosette Nebula Gives Birth to Stars
This 2010 image from the Herschel Space Observatory shows dust clouds associated with the Rosette Nebula, a stellar nursery about…
Hubble Spots Spirals Within a Spiral
At first glance, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image looks to be a simple spiral galaxy, with…