Developing Technologies to Send Humans to Mars

NASA is developing technologies to send humans to the Red Planet. Click here for…

Apollo 11: Returning from the Moon

On July 21, 1969, command and service module pilot Michael Collins photographed this close-up view of…

We Came in Peace for All Mankind

On July 20, 1969, two American astronauts made history by landing on the surface of another…

PIA24016: Mount Whaleback Iron Ore Mine, Australia

           Target: Earth Mission:  Terra Instrument:  ASTER Image Credit: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team…

Apollo 11 Launches into History

At 9:32 a.m. EDT on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission launched via a Saturn…

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An Orbital Partnership Is Born

On July 17, 1975, something momentous happened: two Cold War-rivals met in space. When their respective…

Earth's Beauty from Above

The crew snapped this starry nighttime shot of Rio de Janeiro and surrounding cities on the…

Perseverance Rover Mated to Its Atlas V Rocket

In this image, NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover waits to be lifted onto its Atlas V…

Hubble Sees a Star Called HBC 672 and the Bat Shadow

A young star’s unseen, planet-forming disk casts a huge shadow across a more distant cloud in…

PIA23783: Tropical Storm Fay 2020

           Target: Earth Mission:  Aqua Instrument:  AIRS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Click here for original…