Photo of the Day This sparkling, colorful gemstone is a spiral galaxy, NGC 300. It is one of the closest spiral galaxies to Earth, only about 6 million light-years away. But does it really look like this? Here is a more standard portrait of it. This unusual image combines the light from the stars [...]
The seven-member Expedition 74 crew poses together for a fun portrait before the arrival of three new crewmates on June 14. Clockwise from bottom left, are Chris Williams, Sergei Mikaev, Andrey Fedyaev, Jack Hathaway, Jessica Meir, Sophie Adenot, and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.NASA/Chris Williams The International Space Station is a busy place hosting ten crewmates from NASA, [...]
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This artist’s concept depicts a near-Earth asteroid with an elongated orbit. A few objects such as these can exhibit significant perturbations in their motion around the Sun and, like the asteroid 1998 SH2, could turn out to be regular comets with a weak tail [...]
ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, S. Fujimoto NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope takes us 4.4 billion years in the past with this July 3, 2026, image of a young galaxy cluster, MACS J0553.4-3342. The cluster is composed of two actively merging sub-clusters, roughly equal in mass. Each sub-cluster is anchored on an immensely bright and massive [...]
4 Min Read NASA Uses Subscale Aircraft to Accelerate Flight Innovation An atmospheric probe model attached upside down to a quad rotor remotely piloted aircraft ascends with the Moon visible on Oct. 22, 2024. The quad rotor aircraft released the probe above Rogers Dry Lake, a flight area adjacent NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center [...]
Photo of the Day Is there an angry Sith using force lightning in the Tatacoa Desert? This is not science fiction, but a red sprite with multiple streamers! Ordinary lightning occurs when thundercloud particles collide, lose their electrons, and build up negative charge at the cloud bottom. The cloud’s negative charge repels negative charge [...]
6 min read NASA Study of Pristine Meteorite Adds to Story of Ancient Asteroids C1 clasts in Hillsborough: On the left is a back-scattered electron image with two C1 748 clasts circled. On the right, an X-ray map of the same area as (A), indicating Na enrichment in 749 of the C1 clasts relative [...]
7 Min Read How NASA’s Artemis III Lander Test Will Pave Way for Moon Landings Before Artemis astronauts land on the Moon’s surface in 2028, NASA will conduct the Artemis III demonstration mission in 2027, allowing teams on Earth and in orbit to practice rendezvous and docking operations between commercial human landing systems and [...]
NASA/John Kraus NASA astronaut candidate Anna Menon and her children watch as a Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio lifted off for the Soyuz MS-29 mission at 7:47 [...]
1 Min Read Curiosity Finds Evidence of an Ancient Sandstorm PIA26728 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Photojournal NavigationSciencePhotojournalCuriosity Finds Evidence of an…Photojournal HomePhotojournal SearchLatest ContentGalleriesFeedbackRSSAbout Downloads Curiosity Finds Evidence of an Ancient Sandstorm PNG (7.32 MB) Description Billions of years ago, an hours-long Martian sandstorm blew so intensely that sand ripples began to climb upon one another [...]
