Africa and Europe from a Million Miles Away

Africa is front and center in this image of Earth taken by a NASA camera on…

Round of Testing Completed on Webb Telescope Flight Mirrors

This July 11, 2015 photograph captures one of the final, if not the final, James Webb…

Activity at Klyuchevskoy Volcano

This photograph, taken on May 4, 2015 by an astronaut onboard the International Space Station, highlights…

Pluto Dazzles in False Color

Four images from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with color data from…

July 23, 1999, Chandra X-ray Observatory Awaits Deployment

This 70mm frame shows the 50,162-pound Chandra X-ray Observatory before it was tilted upward for its…

Soyuz Rocket Boosts Expedition 44 Crew to the International Space Station

The Soyuz TMA-17M launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at…

Smoke Over the Greenland Sea

The 2015 wildfire season in the Arctic has been very intense – and very smoky. As…

NASA’s New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto’s ‘Heart’

Pluto’s icy mountains have company. NASA’s New Horizons mission has discovered a new, apparently less lofty…

NASA Captures “EPIC” Earth Image

A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite has returned its first view of…

Frozen Carbon Monoxide in Pluto’s ‘Heart’

Peering closely at the “heart of Pluto,” in the western half of what mission scientists have…