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