
ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet is photographed during a spacewalk in January 2017.

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

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is seen during a spacewalk during Expedition 50 aboard the International Space Station.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer was photographed during a spacewalk in January 2017.

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…