Lightness of Being: Remembering Space Shuttle Columbia and Her Crew

​The bright Sun dissects the airglow above Earth’s horizon in this view photographed with a digital…

Learning How Ocean Water Melts Glaciers

To learn how ocean water is melting glaciers, NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission extensively surveyed the…

Remembering Challenger and Her Crew

In this image taken in 1985, four members of the Challenger STS-51L crew train on the…

PIA24905: Tonga Eruption Atmospheric Wave

           Target: Earth Mission:  Global Differential Global Positioning System (GDGPS) Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GDGPS Click…

Remembering Apollo 1

On Jan. 27, 1967, tragedy struck on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy during a preflight…

PIA24984: NASA's OMG at Thule Air Base, Greenland

           Target: Earth Mission:  OMG Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Click here for original story, PIA24984:…

PIA24983: Apusiaajik Glacier, Greenland

           Target: Earth Mission:  OMG Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Click here for original story, PIA24983:…

The Colors of Water

Much like the sky, rivers are rarely painted one color. Click here for original…

X-59 Wind Tunnel Testing at NASA Glenn

This colorized schlieren image is of a small-scale model of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology airplane. …

Studying the ‘Lost Habitable’ World of Venus

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is designing mission concepts to survive the planet’s extreme temperatures and atmospheric…