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Earth’s Magnetosphere
Earth’s Magnetosphere

Earth is surrounded by a giant magnetic bubble, called the magnetosphere.

Dragon Prepares to Resupply Station
Dragon Prepares to Resupply Station

The Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, Dragon spacecraft stands inside a processing hangar at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in…

Wing of Pegasus, Meteoroid Detection Satellite
Wing of Pegasus, Meteoroid Detection Satellite

On Feb. 16, 1965, the eighth Saturn I flight known as the SA-9, Saturn I Block II, lifted off from…

Van Allen Probes Circle Radiation Belts
Van Allen Probes Circle Radiation Belts

This artist’s rendering of the Van Allen Probes mission shows the path of its two spacecraft through the radiation belts…

Asteroid 2012 DA14 and the Eta Carinae Nebula
Asteroid 2012 DA14 and the Eta Carinae Nebula

Asteroid 2012 DA14 and the Eta Carinae Nebula, with the white box highlighting the asteroid’s path.

Start Me Up!
Start Me Up!

NASA engineers conducted the first in a new round of tests on the next-generation J-2X rocket engine Feb. 15 at…

Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors fly on SOFIA Observatory
Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors fly on SOFIA Observatory

Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors fly on SOFIA Observatory

Progress 50 Approaches Station
Progress 50 Approaches Station

ISS034-E-046383 (11 Feb. 2013) — An unpiloted ISS Progress resupply vehicle approaches the International Space Station, carrying 1,764 pounds of…

Langley NEO Expert Interviewed by Local Media
Langley NEO Expert Interviewed by Local Media

NASA Langley near-Earth object expert Dan Mazanek didn’t expect to be on TV when he woke up; then a meteorite…

Flux Ropes on the Sun
Flux Ropes on the Sun

This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It has been…