This sketch illustrates a family tree of exoplanets. Planets are born out of swirling disks of gas and dust called…
This diagram illustrates how planets are assembled and sorted into two distinct size classes. First, the rocky cores of planets…
Command Module pilot Michael Collins practices in the CM simulator on June 19, 1969, at Kennedy Space Center.
The Suomi NPP satellite’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument captured a look at multiple fires and smoke burning…
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover passed near this small, relatively fresh crater in April 2017, during the 45th anniversary of the…
Summertime in the West is the time that fires strike quickly due to lightning hits and because of dry conditions…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft was racing away from Jupiter following its seventh close pass of the planet when JunoCam snapped this…
NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, is one of the world’s largest manufacturing plants, with 43 acres under…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft sees bright methane clouds drifting in the summer skies of Saturn’s moon Titan, along with dark hydrocarbon…
