With their scheduled stay onboard the International Space Station headed toward its final days, three members…
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James Webb Telescope Model at South by Southwest
As big as a tennis court and as tall as a four-story building, a full-scale model…
Contrails Carry Clues to More Eco-Friendly Flights
Puffy white exhaust contrails stream from the engines of NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory in this image…
Staring at the Sun with SAGE III
NASA engineer Chip Holloway waits for the sun to align with the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas…
Quiet Interlude in Solar Max
Something unexpected is happening on the Sun. 2013 was supposed to be the year of "solar…
Winter Storm Hits the Mid-Atlantic
An image from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite on March 6, 2013, shows a winter storm hitting the…
Hubble Sees ‘Space Invader’ Image
The gravitational field surrounding this massive cluster of galaxies, Abell 68, acts as a natural lens…
SpaceX-2 Mission Launch
Space Exploration Technologies' Falcon 9 rocket lifts off Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air…
Hubble Observes Glowing, Fiery Shells of Gas
It may look like something from "The Lord of the Rings," but this fiery swirl is…
Fermi’s Motion Produces a Study in Spirograph
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits our planet every 95 minutes, building up increasingly deeper views…