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NASA astronaut Jessica Meir shared this photo of an Artemis program patch floating in the International Space Station's cupola on...
The Artemis program patch in the space station's cupola. The patch is framed by the center circular window in the space. Earth can be seen behind the patch. The Artemis patch has five sides. It has a white background with a black border. There's a black "A," for Artemis. The crossbar of the A is made by a curving red trajectory line that crosses from left to right. That line continues beyond the "A" and beyond a small gray circle representing the Moon. Below the "A" is a blue crescent representing Earth. At the very bottom is the word "Artemis."
From left to right, NASA astronauts Andre Douglas, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronauts Jenni Gibbons,...
From left to right, NASA astronauts Andre Douglas, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronauts Jenni Gibbons, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen pose in front of an airplane. They are all wearing blue jumpsuits with patches and gray harnesses.
The Orion Crew Survival System suits that Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA,...
Four neon orange spacesuits hang on a rack decorated with NASA patches. Three of the suits have American flag patches on their left shoulder, while the last has a Canadian flag patch on its left shoulder. The room the suits are hanging in has a large black and white photo on the wall, in which astronauts are in their spacesuits and helmets while two people in white lab coats look on.
NASA’s IXPE observed the outer rim of the supernova remnant highlighted in purple in the inset. Data from IXPE is...
A fiery orange supernova remnant has the shame of a ring breaking apart. The outer rim is highlighted in purple at bottom right. There are stars dotting the darkness of space.
Captured Nov. 29, 2024 by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, this infrared view of Saturn shows its glowing icy rings...
An image of Saturn on the black background of space. Image is labeled Saturn, Webb Infrared Light, November 29, 2024. Saturn has horizontal bands, with bands at the north and south poles appearing darker orange and lightening to tan as they approach the equator. The north and south poles glow a greenish-grey. The rings appear in an icy neon white. White dots, representing several of Saturn’s moons, are labeled Janus, Dione, and Enceladus.
Moon rocks are seen during a March 24, 2026, event where NASA is outlining how the agency is executing the...
Three Moon rocks are encased in three different kinds of containers. They all sit on a flat surface. Behind them is the NASA flag with the agency's seal on it. The flag is lit from the bottom by red and blue lighting.
This new image from the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope takes a closer look at the...
A close-up view shows a galaxy’s bright, yellow center, surrounded by patches of glowing orange-brown dust and pink stars.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 74 crew member Chris Williams smiles for the camera during a spacesuit fit verification inside the...
Chris Williams, an astronaut, is wearing a white spacesuit and helmet. He is facing the camera, but his body is turned to the right of the image. His arms are extended in front of him.
An American bald eagles flies away from its nest and tree at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday,...
A bald eagle soars through a cloudy blue sky. Its wings are spread out and you can see its orange feet tucked under its tail.
At any given moment, about 20 volcanoes on Earth are actively erupting. Often among them is Mayon—the most active volcano...
The upper slopes of Mayon volcano appear brown, with several narrow channels radiating from the crater. A red infrared heat signature appears near the summit, with red streaks extending east and southeast. The lower slopes are green and forested. Farmland and towns are visible in the lower part of the image.
These X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans of particles from asteroid Bennu show the most common types of crack networks observed...
X-ray computed tomography scans of asteroid samples show both their exterior and interior. The outside is a dark gray, rocky surface speckled with white dots, The inside is colored green here, revealing networks of cracks within the sample. At top, the cracks create peaks and valleys, which make the inside look like a topographical map.
Dr. Robert H. Goddard and a liquid oxygen-gasoline rocket in the frame from which it was fired on March 16,...
On a snowy March 16, 1926, Dr. Robert H. Goddard rests his hand on the testing frame supporting his liquid fuel rocket at Ward Farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. A wooden door is propped up at an angle next to the frame where Goddard’s assistant, Henry Sachs, later sheltered after lighting the rocket.
Early morning sunlight illuminates the western wall of this unnamed crater, leaving deep shadows on the ground and in the...
Oblique view of a large, circular lunar crater with steep, rugged walls. Sunlight illuminates one side of the crater rim and inner wall, while the crater floor and much of the interior remain in deep shadow. The surrounding terrain appears gray and heavily textured with smaller craters and rocky ridges. The black sky of space fills the background.
Two powerful instruments of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope joined forces to create this scenic galaxy view. This spiral...
A spiral galaxy, seen tilted diagonally. It has a blue-white, glowing spot at its core. Its oval-shaped disc glows faintly blue throughout with light from its many stars. The disc is filled with waves and strands of bright red dust that swirl around the core. At places there are holes torn in the dust, while elsewhere it forms dense clumps that glow orange. Several tiny, distant galaxies appear across the background.
In Euclid’s wide, near-infrared, and visible light view, the arcs and filaments of the nebula’s bright central region are situated...
A planetary nebula in space. The star in the very center is surrounded by white bubbles and loops of gas, all shining with a powerful blue light. Farther away a broken ring of red and blue gas clouds surrounds the nebula. A multitude of golden and white stars, wisps of gas and distant galaxies of various sizes surround the nebula on the black background.
This impact crater, as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2015, appeared relatively recent as it has a sharp...
An impact crater with a sharp rim seen from above. Most of the landscape is orange, while the steep inner slope on the north side of the crater is a deep blue-black.
A brain-new image from Webb! What looks like a brain (complete with what appear as left and right hemispheres) is...
A shell of ghostly gas encapsulates a cloud of amber-colored gases that blow out in both directions from a central point. This makes the nebula look like a top-down view of two brain hemispheres inside a transparent skull. The scene is decorated with multicolor dots of light, representing distant galaxies and stars. The stars shown here have six points, characteristic of Webb images.
Weekends on the International Space Station are for housecleaning and haircuts. NASA astronaut Jessica Meir trims the hair of fellow...
Jessica Meir holds an electric razor with a vacuum to Jack Hathaway's hair. She looks down at what she's doing, while Hathaway faces to the right of the image. Meir's brown curly hair floats up above her head.
A total lunar eclipse rises over New Orleans, home of NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility, in the early morning hours of...
A mostly red full Moon against the black background of the night sky.
For the first time, a much younger version of the Sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy,...
A star seen in infrared and X-ray light. There is a hazy purple bubble that reaches upward and below that, dust wings that look like a moth’s wings.
Off the coast of California, NASA’s Artemis Landing and Recovery team and the Department of War that will work together...
Two boats with two crews of people are near a full-scale mockup Orion spacecraft in the water. Each of the boats churns up white water behind them. The spacecraft is black and has five orange balloon-like structures on top of it.
The sun's glint beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263...
A view of the Atlantic Ocean from the International Space Station. Sun shines on the water, turning the water in the middle of the photo yellow-orange. There are flat, white clouds scattered above the ocean. In the distance, Earth’s gentle curve is outlined by a pale blue hazy line – that’s our atmosphere. Beyond that is the darkness of space.
The Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) project aims to demonstrate the carbothermal reduction of lunar regolith to produce oxygen on the...
Light shines onto a mirror-like solar concentrator resting on a workbench. The concentrator is tilted upward around 45 degrees to catch the light. Its surface is black at the edges, and as you move inward, it goes from a deep blue to white.
NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren takes a selfie with the people behind "Project Hail Mary" and the audience during a panel...
At right, a man in a blue flight suit with patches on it takes a selfie with his cell phone. He is in the photo, as well as panel members and the large audience. They are in an auditorium. In the far background, there is a NASA "meatball" insignia and the letters "JPL" on the wall.
NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-12 Pilot Jack Hathaway enters the International Space Station after docking aboard the Dragon spacecraft to...
A man with dark hair and a mustache looks up at the camera, smiling. His hands are on the bottom edge of the hatch entrance as he makes his way inside the space station. The path he is coming through has many square cargo bags strapped to each side.
For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, uncovering how...
This image shows the planet Uranus set against the blackness of space. The planet appears as a smooth, bright cyan disc at the center, its atmosphere reveals soft, hazy tones of blue. Surrounding the planet is a vivid reddish glow, forming a diffuse halo that contrasts strongly with the cool blue of the planetary disc. Encircling Uranus are several thin, concentric rings, visible as pale gray arcs. Subtle variations in brightness can be seen across the planet’s face, with slightly brighter patches near the limb, hinting at atmospheric structure.
This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on...
A rover descends toward Mars. The view is top-down. The rover looks like a white rectangle with 6 small black wheels attached to it. Mars' terrain is a brown blur.
NASA astronaut Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen take off on a T-38 training flight from Ellington...
A white plane rises upward to the left against a blue sky. At top left, the waning crescent moon is faintly visible. The plane has a blue stripe low on its body and a version of the NASA insignia on the rudder.
This image of lysozyme crystals grown aboard the International Space Station was taken after the crystals returned to Earth in...
An extreme close-up on crystals. They are geometric in shape, some looking like squares while others are hexagons. Orange light shines from behind the crystals. The light shines through the crystals that face us and highlights their edges.
Fishing boats illuminate the Arabian Sea along India’s west coast with green lights designed to attract squid, shrimp, sardines, and...
City lights sparkle over the land at middle and bottom right. Green lights line the water by the shore.
Northern Japan, especially the island of Hokkaido, is home to some of the snowiest cities in the world. Sapporo, the...
A satellite image shows snow blanketing Hokkaido, Japan, with sea ice swirling just north of the island.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev onboard, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission is the twelfth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Meir, Hathaway, Adenot, and Fedyaev launched at 5:15 a.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin a mission aboard the orbital outpost.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals the clearest view yet of the Egg Nebula. This structure of gas and dust was...
In the image center, an opaque oval cloud of gray gas aligned from 1 o’clock to 7 o’clock hides a star. Two strong beams of light from the star emerge from large holes in both sides of the cloud, forming narrow cones extending toward 10 o’clock and 4 o’clock. The central cloud is surrounded by concentric, wispy shells of gas illuminated by the star’s light. The shells reflect extra light where they’re hit by the twin beams. A crowd of smaller stars with cross-shaped spikes over them surrounds the nebula on a black background.
From left, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 crew members – Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, and...
Four people - two men on the left and two women on the right - pose with the Crew-12 mission insignia. They are all wearing blue jumpsuits with various patches on them. The insignia is on the wall, framed in a black recess. Autographed patches are stuck on the wall around the black frame.
A pair of CubeSats designed by college students from around the world is deployed into Earth orbit from a small...
Two CubeSats, one silver and one with a red face, are ejected from the International Space Station (bottom left) into the blackness of space.
The New York metropolitan area was showing the effects of a prolonged cold spell in late January 2026. During a...
Chunks of ice, which appear light blue in this false-color image, line the western shore of Manhattan in the Hudson River. Smaller rivers and lakes in the scene also appear frozen or partially frozen. The ground is snow-covered, and tall buildings cast long, dark shadows.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare — seen as the bright flash toward the upper...
The Sun is blue, purple, and black with a bright purple line surrounding it. Scattered across it are some brighter purple spots where there is higher activity. Just above center is a bright red and white X: This is the solar flare.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 7722, a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away, features concentric...
A disk-shaped galaxy. It glows brightly at the center and shines a faint white light all around it. The disk is made up of tightly-packed rings of dust, some darker and some lighter. Wide, long lanes of dark reddish dust cross the galaxy in front of its edge, blocking out some of its light; the long strands twist and break apart at each side. A couple of nearby stars and distant galaxies are also visible on the black background.
The Varda Space Industries W-5 capsule returned to Earth in Koonibba in South Australia on Jan. 29, 2026, with the...
An orange and white streak cuts diagonally through a cloudy sky and down to Earth in the distance. The clouds have an unusual, rippling, wave-like pattern.
A full moon is seen shining over NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher in...
A golden full moon is seen shining over NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher in the early hours of February 1, 2026. The SLS core stage is a distinctive deep orange, while Orion is white and sits on top of the core stage.