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Comet Lovejoy Near the Big Dipper
Comet Lovejoy Near the Big Dipper

Comet Lovejoy is favorably located in the night sky for late-night observers.

Comet ISON Streams Toward the Sun
Comet ISON Streams Toward the Sun

Comet ISON is seen the lower right of this image from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory mission, captured at…

Rick Mastracchio Works in the Columbus Laboratory
Rick Mastracchio Works in the Columbus Laboratory

NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Expedition 38 flight engineer, works with Biolab hardware in the Columbus laboratory.

NASA Kepler’s Second Light
NASA Kepler’s Second Light

This image by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft shows the telescope’s full field of view taken in a new demonstration mode in…

Kepler’s Second Light: How K2 Will Work
Kepler’s Second Light: How K2 Will Work

Engineers have developed an innovative way to stabilize and control the spacecraft. This technique of using the sun as the…

Topsy Turvy Black Holes
Topsy Turvy Black Holes

The magenta spots in this image show two black holes in the spiral galaxy called NGC 1313, or the Topsy…

Black Holes of the Circinus Galaxy
Black Holes of the Circinus Galaxy

The magenta spots in this image show two black holes in the Circinus galaxy: the supermassive black hole at its…

Lighting the Paths Across the U.S.
Lighting the Paths Across the U.S.

This natural-light, mosaic view of the continental United States is from two nighttime images acquired early on Oct. 1, 2013,…

Webb Telescope Crew Flexes Robotic Arm at NASA
Webb Telescope Crew Flexes Robotic Arm at NASA

The robotic arm lifts and lowers a golden James Webb Space Telescope flight spare primary mirror segment onto a test…

Astronaut Rick Mastracchio Exercises on CEVIS
Astronaut Rick Mastracchio Exercises on CEVIS

NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Expedition 38 flight engineer, exercises on the Cycle Ergometer with Vibration Isolation System.