On Jan. 16, 2016, Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly shared photographs of a blooming zinnia flower…
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Jason-3 Satellite Launches
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is seen as it launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base Space…
Jason-3 Satellite Prepared For Launch
In the SpaceX Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the Jason-3 satellite…
Pluto’s Wright Mons in Color
Scientists with NASA’s New Horizons mission have assembled this highest-resolution color view of one of two…
New Seafloor Map Helps Scientists Find New Features
An international scientific team recently published a new map of the ocean floor based on Earth’s…
Tim Peake Prepares For Friday’s Spacewalk
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) shared this photo taken aboard the International Space…
Starburst Spider
Mars' seasonal cap of carbon dioxide ice has eroded many beautiful terrains as it sublimates (goes…
Hubble Sees a Supermassive and Super-hungry Galaxy
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, located over 65 million…
Galaxy Cluster IDCS 1426
Astronomers have made the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster using…
Space Station Flyover of British Columbia’s Coast Mountains
ESA astronaut Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) took this photograph over the west coast of Canada from the…