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 nation...
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...
On April 12, 1981, NASA launched is first Space Transportation System, or space shuttle, mission, carrying astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen in...
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, Apri...
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 Apr...
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 Headquarte...
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, left, and cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, center, and Pyotr Dubrov are seen inside their Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft after land...
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 ...
Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these events are around oth...
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 an...
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.
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 l...
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,...
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...
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.
