This artist’s concept illustrates the frenzied activity at the core of our Milky Way galaxy. The galactic center hosts a supermassive black hole in the region known as Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*, with a mass of about four million times that of our sun. The Hers... More »
If astronomers could somehow pull planets out of the sky and analyze them in the laboratory, it might look something like this artistically altered image illustrating new research from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The infrared observatory allows astronomers... More »
This is an artist’s concept of the Saturnian plasma sheet based on data from Cassini magnetospheric imaging instrument. It shows Saturn’s embedded “ring current,” an invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in the planet’s magnetic field. Image credit: NASA/JP... More »
Mt. Dana and Dana Plateau in the Tuolumne River Basin within Yosemite National Park, Calif., as seen out the window of a Twin Otter aircraft carrying NASA’s Airborne Snow Observatory on April 3, 2013. The patchy snow cover this early in the snowmelt season is ... More »
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover social media campaign and the agency’s Solar System Exploration site have been recognized in the 17th Annual Webby Awards – the leading international honor for the best of the Internet. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Curiosit... More »
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover social media campaign and the agency’s Solar System Exploration site have been recognized in the 17th Annual Webby Awards – the leading international honor for the best of the Internet. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Curiosit... More »
Artist concept of Mars Exploration Rover. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status Report Update: NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Project received confirmation from Mars this morning (May 1) that the Opportunity rover is back under gr... More »
Artist concept of Mars Exploration Rover. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status Report During a moratorium on commanding this month while Mars passed nearly behind the sun – a phase called solar conjunction — NASA’s Mars Explorat... More »
Cool Andromeda Andromeda, also known as M31, is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way. Image credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS & SPIRE Consortium, O. Krause, HSC, H. Linz The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instrume... More »
The Rose The spinning vortex of Saturn’s north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Measurements have sized the eye at a staggering 1,250 miles (2,000 k... More »
Five images of Saturn’s rings, taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft between 2009 and 2012, show clouds of material ejected from impacts of small objects into the rings. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Cornell NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has ... More »
The entry, descent and landing team of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory project received the 2013 Trophy for Current Achievement from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on April 24, 2013. Pictured here in the back row are the following members of the ... More »
