NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, and award-winning writer-director James Cameron, meet at NASA Headquarters in Washington,…
Category: NASA Image of the Day
Star Maker
Galaxies throughout the universe are ablaze with star birth. But for a nearby, small spiral galaxy,…
Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the…
STS-129 Crew Meets With Members of Congress
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, the STS-129 space shuttle crew and members of the Congressional Black Caucus…
Bright Layered Deposits
Martian landforms have been shaped by winds, water, lava flow, seasonal icing and other forces over…
Crystalline
Looking for all the world like a snowflake, this is actually a close up view of…
Jupiter’s Moons
On Jan. 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei's improvements to the telescope enabled humanity to see Jupiter's four…
History Revealed
More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic, full-color view of…
Into the Heart of Darkness
Astronomers have long known that the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way…
Stellar Destruction
Evidence from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan telescopes suggest a star was torn apart…