Set to launch next year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will explore a metal-rich asteroid of the same name in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia24472-psyche-asteroid-illustration-16_0.jpg
As a payload communications manager Penny J. Pettigrew spends most days in the Payload Operations Integration Center at Marshall Space Flight Center. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/elg_1889.jpg
This view of Earth’s horizon as the Sun sets over the Pacific Ocean was taken by the Expedition 7 crew onboard the International Space Station in 2003. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/5091372229_ebca868ffd_o.jpeg
This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope revisits the Veil Nebula, which was featured in a previous Hubble image release. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw2113a.jpg
Northrop Grumman's Cygnus resupply ship, with its prominent cymbal-shaped UltraFlex solar arrays is pictured attached to the space station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss064e047042.jpg
The Soyuz rocket is rolled out by train to the launch pad at Site 31, Tuesday, April 6, 2021, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51098576589_a0e8182e15_o.jpeg
Today is World Health Day and we're funding studies to determine whether environmental factors influence the spread of the virus. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ecostress_lst_milpitasca_22may2020.jpg
A sea of dark dunes, sculpted by the wind into long lines, surrounds Mars' northern polar cap and covers an area as big as Texas. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/504716main_pia13662-full_full.jpg
Mary W. Jackson (second from left) seen in 1984 Student Symposium at Langley Research Center. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/lrc-1984-b701_p-03279_large.jpeg
When space shuttle Columbia took to the skies, a new era of spaceflight took wing. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/s81-30503_orig.jpeg
In April 2019, ablack hole and its shadow were captured in an image for the first time. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/blackholefirst.png
This image, taken by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory in 2012, shows an extraordinary outburst from a black hole. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/6986578034_2ff89714dd_o.jpeg
The night lights of Tokyo, Japan, are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above the island nation. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss064e038775.jpg
Spectacular jets are powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules A. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hs-article-1247a-2400x1705.jpeg
Crew-2 are seen as they prepare to depart for Launch Complex 39A during a dress rehearsal on Sunday, April 18, 2021, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51122505089_8c70f66f27_o.jpeg
In this image that astronaut Scott Kelly posted to Twitter on Aug. 9, 2015 during his #YearInSpace captures all the the places humans dwell. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/21226354458_b0fbe5e680_o.jpeg
Sunset at Gobabeb, Namibia. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/gobabeb_sunset.jpeg
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is seen to the right of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington as it is launches the Crew-2 mission. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51134219575_0dd0282491_o.jpeg
Scientists have found fragments of titanium blasting out of a famous supernova. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/casa_crunched_0.jpg
This image from April 24, 2021, shows the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour as it approached the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss065e002261.jpg