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Test Version of Orion Spacecraft Touches Down in the Arizona Desert
Test Version of Orion Spacecraft Touches Down in the Arizona Desert

A test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft descends under its three main parachutes above the U.S. Army Proving Ground in…

Martian Rock and Dust Filling Studied with Laser and Camera
Martian Rock and Dust Filling Studied with Laser and Camera

Scientists used the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover in June 2014 to examine a Martian…

Solar Array Panels on the Zarya
Solar Array Panels on the Zarya

A portion of the solar array panels on the Zarya Functional Cargo Block (FGB) is featured in this image photographed…

Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE)
Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE)

NEOWISE surveys near-Earth asteroids and calculates radiometric diameters and albedos for almost all known asteroids. NEOWISE differs from other infrared…

Curiosity Self-Portrait at ‘Windjana’ Drilling Site
Curiosity Self-Portrait at ‘Windjana’ Drilling Site

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used the camera at the end of its arm in April and May 2014 to take…

STEREO Finds Corona Larger Than Expected
STEREO Finds Corona Larger Than Expected

Scientists used these observations of the sun’s atmosphere from NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory on Aug. 5, 2007 to define…

Orion’s Belt Rises Through the Atmosphere
Orion’s Belt Rises Through the Atmosphere

On June 23, 2014, Expedition 40 Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman captured this image which connects Earth to the International Space…

LoFLYTE
LoFLYTE

During the week of June 23, 1997, LoFLYTE™ made three successful flights at Edwards Air Force Base under the direction…

Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is fine-tuned to quickly locate and study gamma-ray bursts from the creation of black holes in…

Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)
Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)

NuSTAR is an x-ray telescope that maps selected regions of space to take a census of collapsed stars and black…