NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson (middle) floats inside the Quest airlock along with Thomas Pesquet (left) and Shane Kimbrough (right) prior…
This week in 1992, the First International Microgravity Laboratory, IML-1, module launched aboard space shuttle Discovery.
The JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped this shot of Jupiter’s northern latitudes.
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) studies the internal structure of the Sun, its outer atmosphere and solar winds, and…
MErcury Surface, Space ENvironments, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) studied Mercury’s surface in stereo to determine global topography and landforms, which…
Akatsuki (also known as PLANET-C) studies the causes for the disparities between Venus and Earth to provide answers about the…
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission provides worldwide rain and snow observation every three hours in order to advance the…
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s (LRO) main objective is to return global lunar data, like day-night temperatures, a geodetic grid, and…
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission is designed to explore Mars’ ionosphere and atmosphere, as well as its…
Juno is a NASA mission that will determine how much water is in Jupiter’s atmosphere, measure temperature, composition, and cloud…