Like a drop of dew hanging on a leaf, Tethys appears to be stuck to the…
Category: NASA Image of the Day
Hubble Catches a Dusty Spiral in Virgo
This magnificent new image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the edge-on spiral galaxy…
Super Typhoon Vongfong in the Philippine Sea
On Oct. 9, 2014 at 04:25 UTC (12:25 a.m. EDT), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)…
Astronaut Reid Wiseman on the First Spacewalk of Expedition 41
On Oct. 7, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman (pictured here) and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst…
Preparing For a Spacewalk
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman checks his spacesuit in preparation for the first Expedition 41 spacewalk in…
Launch Abort System Installed for Orion Flight Test
The launch abort system for the Orion Flight Test is lowered by crane for installation on…
Rosetta Comet Fires Its Jets
The four images that make up this montage of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko were taken on Sept. 26,…
James Webb Space Telescope Sunshield Test Unfolds Seamlessly
A major test of the sunshield for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was conducted recently by…
Milky Way Viewed From the International Space Station
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman captured this image from the International Space Station and posted it to social…
Fall Colors Arriving
A few days after autumn showed up on the calendar in the Northern Hemisphere, it showed…