In late February 2013, a major snowstorm made its way across the continental United States, dropping…
Author: NASA Image of the Day
The Whirlpool Galaxy
The Whirlpool Galaxy is a classic spiral galaxy. At only 30 million light years distant and…
Saturn’s North Polar Hexagon
Saturn's north polar hexagon basks in the Sun's light now that spring has come to the…
Colors of the Innermost Planet
This colorful view of Mercury was produced by using images from the color base map imaging…
Learning about ‘Veggie’ at the NASA Social
Marshall Porterfield, Life and Physical Sciences Division Director at NASA Headquarters, talks about the human body…
Inspecting Friendship 7
Astronaut John Glenn inspects artwork that will be painted on the outside of his Mercury spacecraft,…
Dragon Prepares to Resupply Station
The Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, Dragon spacecraft stands inside a processing hangar at Cape Canaveral…
Flux Ropes on the Sun
This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory…
Celestial Valentine
Generations of stars can be seen in this infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. In…
Interviewing Mohawk Guy
Bobak Ferdowsi, Flight Director, Mars Curiosity Rover, answers questions from Scholastic News young reporter Emily Shao…