The Earth’s atmosphere has four primary layers: the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere. These layers protect our planet by absorbing…
The Heliosphere is the outer atmosphere of the Sun and marks the edge of the Sun’s magnetic influence in space.
The inner magnetosphere is composed of three populations of charged particles that are trapped in the Earth’s magnetic field.
The Earth’s atmosphere has four primary layers: the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere.
On Jan. 27, 1967, veteran astronaut Gus Grissom, first American spacewalker Ed White and rookie Roger Chaffee (left-to-right) were preparing…
JSC2013-E-007020 (18 Jan. 2013) — Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata (left), Expedition 38 flight engineer and Expedition…
The gas generator from an F-1 engine is test-fired at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., on Jan.…
The ring-region Saturnian moons Prometheus and Pan are both caught “herding” their respective rings in this image. Through their gravitational…
Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-K,…
Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in…
