This false-color image demonstrates how use of special filters available on the Curiosity Mars rover's Mast…
Category: NASA Image of the Day
From Hot to Hottest
This sequence of images shows the Sun from its surface to its upper atmosphere all taken…
Learning to Walk Before Heading to Space
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen is suspended over a mock-up of the International Space Station…
Viewing Australia’s Great Sandy Desert From Space
Flying hundreds miles above, astronauts aboard the International Space Station photographed Lake Hazlett and Lake Willis…
Hubble Digs into Cosmic Archaeology
This Hubble infrared image is part of an observing program that imaged 41 massive galaxy clusters…
Studying the Genetics of Organisms in Space
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center, organisms in a Petri plate are exposed to blue excitation lighting…
NASA Astronauts on Third and Final Spacewalk in October Series
NASA astronauts Joe Acaba (left) and Randy Bresnik (right) at work outside the International Space Station…
Remembering Astronaut Paul Weitz
In this June 1973 photo, astronaut Paul J. Weitz, Skylab 2 pilot, mans the control and…
The Grace of Saturn
Saturn's graceful lanes of orbiting ice -- its iconic rings -- wind their way around the…
Hubble Unravels a Twisted Cosmic Knot
This Hubble image shows what happens when two galaxies become one. The twisted cosmic knot seen…