James Webb Space Telescope’s Heart Survives Deep Freeze Test

After 116 days of being subjected to extremely frigid temperatures like that in space, the heart…

Hubble Sees Turquoise-Tinted Plumes in Large Magellanic Cloud

The brightly glowing plumes seen in this image are reminiscent of an underwater scene, with turquoise-tinted…

Extreme Ultraviolet Image of a Significant Solar Flare

The sun emitted a significant solar flare on Oct. 19, 2014, peaking at 1:01 a.m. EDT.…

Hurricane Gonzalo Viewed From the International Space Station

This image of Hurricane Gonzalo was taken from the International Space Station by European Space Agency…

Operation IceBridge Turns Five

In May 2014, two new studies concluded that a section of the land-based West Antarctic ice sheet…

Wiseman and Wilmore Spacewalk Preparations

Flight Engineers Reid Wiseman (right) and Barry Wilmore spent most of the day on Tuesday, Oct.…

Stuck on the Rings

Like a drop of dew hanging on a leaf, Tethys appears to be stuck to the…

Hubble Catches a Dusty Spiral in Virgo

This magnificent new image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the edge-on spiral galaxy…

Super Typhoon Vongfong in the Philippine Sea

On Oct. 9, 2014 at 04:25 UTC (12:25 a.m. EDT), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)…

Astronaut Reid Wiseman on the First Spacewalk of Expedition 41

On Oct. 7, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman (pictured here) and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst…