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You know how the saying goes, “Shoot for the Moon and you’ll land amongst 13 carefully selected candidate regions”
As we prepare to send astr...
Cloudy with a chance of star-formation ✨
Nestled a little over 1,000 light-years away in the Orion nebula, a celestial cloudscape surrounds ...
It's a home run when the team touch basin
To see the details of Mercury’s Caloris basin, our MESSENGER spacecraft took images of the planet in the b...
#Artemis I is on the launch pad!
After a 10-hour overnight drive from @NASAKennedy 's massive Vehicle Assembly Building, our Space Launch System rock...
It's a home run when the team touch basin
To see the details of Mercury’s Caloris basin, our MESSENGER spacecraft took images of the planet in the b...
Why so blue? 🔵
Neptune, the eighth planet from the Sun, sometimes referred to as “the other blue planet” has for centuries captivated astronomer...
#ICYMI: Lunar scientist Dr. Brett Denevi, @NASA photographer @IngallsImages , and @NatGeo photographer @BabakTafreshi discuss the experience of cap...
Let’s get ready to rumble! 🦾
Lights are out, as a prototype Moon mining robot – or formally – the ISRU Pilot Excavator tests out its diggin...
Things aren’t always in black and white…but sometimes they are!
#ICYMI: We talked to Webb science visuals developers Joe DePasquale and Alyssa Pag...
That's not your sound machine, that's a piece of unscathed Amazonian rainforest
Using data taken from Earth and space, scientists observed that for...
Am I the drama? 🌝
The Perseid meteors are an annual event many skywatchers look forward to, as they often produce lots of shooting stars to enjoy...
Wow, look at Saturn setting unrealistic beauty standards. 😤
Fine. It has our attention. Saturn is currently in opposition—in other words,...
Galaxy brain airplane 🧠
When we need to fly a massive rocket part or hulking spacecraft segment across the country, we bring in our Super Guppy ai...
#ICYMI: Lunar scientist Dr. Brett Denevi, @NASA photographer @IngallsImages , and @NatGeo photographer @BabakTafreshi discuss the experience of cap...
Let’s get ready to rumble! 🦾
Lights are out, as a prototype Moon mining robot – or formally – the ISRU Pilot Excavator tests out its diggin...
How about some Moonday Motivation?
This Moon mosaic is comprised of 1,231 images taken by our Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft in the ...
G’Day Mate 🪃
264 Miles above Earth, a crew member of the @ISS , captures the Sun as its rays burst above Sharks Bay, off the coast of Wes...
“When we first get word we have touched the top of the atmosphere, the vehicle has been alive – or dead – for at least seven minutes”
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Is gravity the only thing keeping you together? Then you might be a globular cluster.
@NASAHubble captured this globular cluster, a tightly ...
“When we first get word we have touched the top of the atmosphere, the vehicle has been alive – or dead – for at least seven minutes”
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