This photograph of the Lunar Module at Tranquility Base was taken by Neil Armstrong during the…
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July 14 Solar Flare and a Coronal Mass Ejection
A medium-sized (M2) solar flare and a coronal mass ejection erupted from the same, large active…
NASA Evaluates How Crew Will Exit Orion Spacecraft
When astronauts return to Earth from destinations beyond the moon in NASA’s Orion spacecraft and splashdown…
NASA Langley and the Space Race
Neil Armstrong trained for the Apollo 11 mission at NASA Langley's Lunar Landing Research Facility on…
Hubble Traps a Lynx Barred Spiral
NGC 2500 is a particular kind of spiral galaxy known as a barred spiral, its wispy…
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (Enhanced Color)
This enhanced-color image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was created by citizen scientist Gerald Eichstädt using…
Looking Back: Aircraft Engineering Research Conference at Langley’s Full Scale Tunnel, 1934
This year, NASA is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton,…
Lakes and Rivers Have Ice, Too
On May 29, 2017, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this…
Dawn’s Early Light
The light of a new day on Saturn illuminates the planet’s wavy cloud patterns and the…
Winds Trigger Pond Growth
Wind is a force to be reckoned with. It can stir up monsoons, carry dust thousands…