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NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft with its launch abort system is stacked atop the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket...

The orange core stage of the Artemis II rocket with white boosters on each side fully stacked inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025.

Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed never-before-seen details in the picturesque Red Spider Nebula...

A multicolored nebula stands out against the star-studded background of space. The nebula’s central star is hidden by a blotchy pinkish cloud of dust. A strong red light radiates from this area, lighting up the nearby dust. An elongated purple ‘S’ shape is centered on the heart of the nebula, while two blue lobes stretch diagonally outward to the edges of the image, making the entire structure look like a tilted hourglass.

The atmospheric glow blankets southern Europe and the northwestern Mediterranean coast, outlined by city lights. At left, the Po Valley...

Earth is a dark sphere with a glowing green border in this photo. We can only see one portion of it; in this photo’s orientation, we’re looking at the “bottom” of Earth’s sphere. City lights shine brightly at middle left; they are more dispersed throughout the rest of Earth that’s visible. Part of the space station is just barely visible at top left.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy, NGC 2775, that’s hard to categorize.

A galaxy seen face-on, with a slightly elliptical disk that appears to have a hole in the center like a doughnut. In the hole, the core is a brightly glowing point that shines light out beyond the edge of the disk. Around the hole is an inner ring of dust, and at the galaxy’s edge is a thicker outer ring of dust, with a swirling web of dust strands in between. Blue stars and red nebulae are visible behind the dust.

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft lifts off for its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from U.S. Air Force...

The X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies above California. The plane has a distinctive shape with a long, sharply pointed nose. The nose is silver, while the rest of the body looks white. The words "NASA" and "X-59" are on the body of the aircraft. In the background, we can see brown earth below the plane as well as hazy mountains in the distance.

NGC 1068, a relatively nearby spiral galaxy, appears in this image released on July 23, 2025.

A gold and blue spiral galaxy swirls in the darkness of space. There is a bright spot of light at its center.

NASA ER-2 pilot Kirt Stallings waits inside the transport vehicle at Edwards, California, on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, moments before...

A person facing left sits inside a vehicle. They are wearing a yellow jumpsuit and gloves and a white helmet with a visor that looks like a smaller version of the kind astronauts wear during spacewalks. Outside of the window behind the person, you can see the ER-2 aircraft being prepared for flight.

This image shows two massive galaxy clusters. The vast number of galaxies and foreground stars in the image were captured...

Webb near-infrared data combined with Chandra X-ray data of the Bullet Cluster show many overlapping objects, including foreground stars, galaxies in galaxy clusters, and distorted background galaxies behind the galaxy clusters. The objects are all at various distances set against the black background of space. Most galaxies appear as tiny fuzzy ovals in white, orange, or red. A slightly larger, very bright, light blue spiral galaxy is at center. To its immediate left and right are two large bright pink splotches representing X-rays. The right pink area has a rounded nose facing right, where it is darker pink, and fades to the left as a triangular shape. This is referred to as the Bullet. To the far left and far right, next to the pink regions, are two blue regions representing dark matter mass. The left blue region is a large, long oval at an angle. The blue region at right is a far smaller oval.

The 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic arm extends from a data grapple fixture on the International Space Station’s Harmony module in this...

The 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic arm extends from the International Space Station. The arm is long, cylindrical, and white, with several joints that are bent to the right (at left in the image) and downward (at center). Earth makes a bright white and blue background for the top half of the photo. Our home planet contrasts starkly with the darkness of space.

During its close flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io on December 30, 2023, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured some of the most...

Jupiter's moon, Io, as seen by NASA's Juno spacecraft. Io is yellow-brown and looks somewhat like a potato: some of its geographical features look like the eyes on a potato. Io is partly illuminated by sunshine reflecting off of Jupiter's surface. The darkness of space provides a black background.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the nebula LMC N44C.

$Stars in a star cluster shine brightly blue, with four-pointed diffraction spikes radiating from them. The center shows a small, crowded group of stars while a larger group is partially visible on the right side of the image. The nebula is mostly thick, smoky clouds of gas, lit up in blue tones by the stars. Clumps of dust hover before and around the stars; they are mostly dark but lit around their edges where the starlight erodes them.$

This stunning Earth image taken from the International Space Station looks at a large lake in eastern Kazakhstan with golden...

A view of northwestern China (bottom) and eastern Kazakhstan. A body of water in the distance glows gold; this is Lake Balkhash, one of the largest lakes in the world. The rest of Earth that is visible is mostly covered with flat, white clouds. At top, Earth's atmosphere can be seen, as well as the darkness of space.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), the agency’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and National Oceanic...

A rocket lifts off into the sky, leaving a bright trail of flame in its wake. White vapor clouds billow out along the ground. There are also various structures in the image, including a gantry and a white structure that looks like a water tower.

NASA astronaut Nick Hague watches as Robert Schmidle Pitts Aerobatics perform, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, during the Joint Base Andrews...

A man in a dark blue jumpsuit faces away from the camera, watching a plane in the light blue sky. He shades his eyes with his right hand.

NASA’s 10 new astronaut candidates were introduced Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, following a competitive selection process of more than 8,000...

Ten people in blue jumpsuits link arms. The two women on either end wave at the audience, who is not visible.

IC 348 is a star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy.

Material resembling a tangle of dark pink hair swirls dramatically across the image. The picture is dotted with dozens of colorful orbs in various sizes.

In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at JPL’s Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California, beams its eight-laser...

A faint beam stretches up and to the left from the open dome of a laboratory into the sky. The building and surrounding trees are mostly in shadow. The sky is a deep blue with multicolored stars visible; the bottom of the sky where it meets the landscape fades from blue to pink.

The Milky Way appears above Earth's bright atmospheric glow in this photograph from the International Space Station as it soared...

The Milky Way galaxy appears above Earth's greenish atmospheric glow. The galaxy's dust and stars can be seen against the darkness of space.

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman processes bone cell samples inside the Kibo laboratory module's Life Science Glovebox on Aug. 28, 2025.

An astronaut smiles at the camera while she works at a glovebox on the International Space Station. Her hands are inside the glove box. She is wearing a black headset.

Westerlund 1 is the biggest and closest “super” star cluster to Earth. Data from Chandra and other telescopes are helping...

Scores of gleaming white orbs and tiny specks pack the blackness of space, surrounded by a purple haze, and mottled golden clouds.

NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick (left) and Mark Vande Hei (right) prepare to fly out to a landing zone in the...

NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick (left, in a blue jumpsuit with a patch on the right arm) and Mark Vande Hei (right, in camouflage clothing) in the cockpit of a helicopter. Dominick holds an open binder in his right hand and points forward with his left. They are both wearing black helmets. There is another person behind Dominick, also wearing a blue jumpsuit and helmet, facing the opposite way.

The Sun blew out a coronal mass ejection along with part of a solar filament over a three-hour period on...

This image focuses on a twisting jet of material erupting from the Sun, glowing bright against the black backdrop of space. The Sun is a fiery, deep red ball taking up three-quarters of the image on the right.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured newborn stars forming in clouds of dust and gas (colored golden and orange in...

In what appears as a celestial dreamscape, a blue and black sky filled with brilliant stars covers about two thirds of the image. The stars are different sizes and shades of white, beige, yellow, and light orange. Across the bottom third of the scene is a craggy, mountain-like vista with spire-like peaks and deep, seemingly misty valleys. These so-called mountains appear in varying shades of orange, yellow, and brown. The soaring spires are going up, up, up, where a wispy, ethereal white cloud stretches horizontally across the scene. Steam appears to rise from the mountaintops and join with this cloud. At the top, right corner of the image, a swath of orange and brown structure cuts diagonally across the sky.

Dinner is served aboard the International Space Station! One tray features shrimp cocktail on whole grain wheat crackers, while the...

Two metal trays of food are attached to a surface by Velcro strips. The tray in the foreground has sushi on it, while the tray in the back has shrimp cocktail on crackers.

From left to right, NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot; Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander; CSA (Canadian Space Agency)...

Four astronauts - three men and one woman - walk down a dark gray ramp, exiting a building. A Black man at front left waves as he looks to our right. The other three people are smiling. All of the astronauts wear bright orange jumpsuits with various patches on them.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio is pictured inside the cupola, the International Space Station's "window to...

A man in a dark polo shirt smiles at the camera with his arms crossed. He is in the cupola of the International Space Station, an area with multiple windows through which Earth and space can be seen. Earth's clouds can be seen through the windows behind him.

Orion Mission Evaluation Room (MER) team member works during an Artemis II mission simulation on Aug. 19, 2025, from the...

NASA astronauts Jonny Kim and Zena Cardman, both Expedition 73 Flight Engineers, pose for a portrait inside the International Space...

Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats in the ocean. This photo, taken from NASA’s Gulfstream V Research Aircraft on July...

$Aerial view of fractured sea ice floating in the Arctic Ocean. Large white ice sheets are broken into irregular shapes, with deep blue melt ponds and dark open water channels visible between them.$

This long-exposure photograph, taken over 31 minutes from a window inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module, captures the...

Stars photographed over 31 minutes make a concentric pattern of white circles. At the bottom edge of the photo, there is a soft orange glow. A portion of the International Space Station can be seen in the foreground. This photo was taken through a window on the space station.

In the sparsely populated Kimberley region of Western Australia, jagged landforms reach like fingers into the turquoise-blue ocean waters. Along...

A satellite image shows brown-red, jagged land in the bottom-right corner jutting into blue-green water. Numerous islands dot the rest of the scene. The water appears to swirl around the islands. Some of the coastal areas are dotted with green.

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman poses for a portrait in a photography studio at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

A black and white photo of a woman wearing a spacesuit and helmet. She looks upward toward the right. The photo shows only her head and shoulders.

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft sits on the ramp at sunrise before ground tests at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works...

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is seen on the ramp at sunrise with its canopy open. Orange and gold light filters through the clouds behind the aircraft, highlighting the aircraft’s shape. Several ground crew members are visible around the aircraft, along with support carts. A vertical light pole with a coiled cable can be seen in the foreground.

The parachute of the Enhancing Parachutes by Instrumenting the Canopy test experiment deploys following an air launch from an Alta...

A parachute carrying a capsule is fully open against a canvas of deep blue sky.

California's San Francisco Bay Area surrounded by the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, and their suburbs, is...

California's San Francisco Bay Area as seen from the International Space Station orbiting 260 miles above. The water is slate gray, while the surrounding land is in shades of brown, deep green, and gray.

Viking 1 was launched by a Titan-Centaur rocket from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 5:22 p.m....

A rocket launches upward. There is a very bright flame coming from the rocket, as well as clouds of white vapor. The clouds cover up the right side of the scene. On the left side, the sky is visible along with some thin white clouds. There are trees and other vegetation in the foreground of the image.

The Moon's light is refracted by Earth's atmosphere, giving it a spheroid shape in this April 13, 2025, photograph from...

$The Moon looks nearly full from the viewpoint of the International Space Station. Below, we can see the Moon's light being refracted by Earth's atmosphere. A few clouds can be seen at the bottom of the image.$

NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist, and Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, walk on the crew access arm...

NASA astronauts Christina Koch, a white woman, and Victor Glover, an African-American man, walk to the left during a night-run launch day demonstration. The crew access arm they're walking on has railings, one of which is in the foreground. The astronauts are wearing orange suits with patches and straps on them, as well as white helmets with clear visors. There is a person walking in front of them. This person is wearing khaki clothing and is carrying a gas tank on their back. The gas tank has straps like a backpack.

Former NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough is photographed during a spacewalk in January 2017.

An astronaut in a white spacesuit comes out of a hatch on the International Space Station. We can see parts of the space station in the photo.

Eleven International Space Station crew members gather inside the International Space Station's Unity module for a portrait on Aug. 3,...

Eleven people pose for a picture in the International Space Station. The crew is composed of women and men from different missions and different countries. The portion of the space station that they're in is white with wires on many of the surfaces.

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