A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a batch of the company’s Starlink internet satellites lifts off from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, on April 21, 2022. On the right, NASA’s Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard sits atop a mobile laun […]
The crew aboard the International Space Station has a window on Planet Earth. In this image an orbital sunrise beams across Earth’s horizon revealing silhouetted clouds above the South China Sea. Every 24 hours, the space station makes 16 orbits of Earth, traveling through 16 sunrises and suns
We’re celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 32nd birthday with a stunning look at an unusual close-knit collection of five galaxies, called The Hickson Compact Group 40. This eclectic galaxy grouping includes three spiral-shaped galaxies, an elliptical galaxy, and a lenticular (lens-l
A vehicle carrying two members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission passed by the Vehicle Assembly Building as it returned to the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building from Launch Complex 39A following the completion of a dress rehearsal for the Crew-4 launch, Wednesday, April 20, 2022, at N
NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, right, speaks to members of the media after arriving at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, ahead of SpaceX’s Crew-4 mission. With him are crewmates NASA astronaut Bob Hines, left, European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, seco
In this image from April 10, 2022, sunlight glints off the Atlantic Ocean in this photograph from taken by the crew of the International Space Station as it orbited 262 miles above. Every 24 hours, the space station makes 16 orbits of Earth, traveling through 16 sunrises and sunsets. Learn More Inte
NASA and the National Park Service worked together to create a web-based tool that helps park managers better understand the impact of outdoor lighting and noise on animal species in national parks. The website allows park managers to choose a time period, such as the spring or winter seasons, and t
Astronomers have identified a rapidly growing black hole in the early universe that is considered a crucial “missing link” between young star-forming galaxies and the first supermassive black holes, using data from the Hubble Space Telescope to make this discovery. This artist’s im
What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Officially named W40, the butterfly is a nebula – a giant cloud of gas and dust in space where new stars may form. The butterflyR
In the early morning hours of April 12, 1981, NASA launched is first Space Transportation System, or space shuttle, mission, carrying astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen into orbit. Mission Commander John Youn had already flown in space four times, including a walk on the Moon in 1972. Bob Crip
