After nine years in deep space collecting data that revealed our night sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets – more planets even than stars – NASA’s Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel needed for further science operations. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/kepler_eof_08-01-ws-oil-paint_filter.jpg
Happy birthday, Michael Collins! Test pilot and NASA astronaut Michael Collins served as the pilot for Gemini X and as the command module pilot for the Apollo 11 mission, the first time humans set foot on another celestial body. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/s66-46270_orig.jpg
The Airbus team poses with the European Service Module during preparations for shipment to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/p1010202.jpg
The International Space Station photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss056e201322.jpg
The Suwannee is known as a “blackwater river” because of its dark-brown waters laden with organic material. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/suwannee_blackriver1.jpg
Earth Enveloped in Airglow http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss057e035382_lrg.jpg
On Nov. 1, 2018, the USS John P. Murtha recovered the test version of the Orion capsule at sunset in the Pacific Ocean. This is one in a series of tests that will verify and validate procedures and hardware that will be used to recover the Orion spacecraft after it splashes down in the Pacific Ocean following deep space exploration missions. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/43937544230_c83330c8aa_k.jpg
Curling snow drifts are magnified by the terrain around the 1,400 mile Dnieper River, flowing from Russia to the Black Sea in this image from the International Space Station on Feb. 9th, 2017. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/32109555763_eb9bb215ef_k.jpg
On Nov. 1, 2018, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured a false-color view of flooding along the Nueces River in a series of storms that have delivered historic amounts of rain to central Texas. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/texas_oli_2018305_updated.jpg
The six day old Camp Fire has already attained the unfortunate title of California's deadliest fire. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/campfireaqua.jpg
The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus spacecraft onboard, is seen on Pad-0A, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/44051782150_ff701b67c6_o.jpg
The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus spacecraft onboard, is seen on Pad-0A, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/44051782150_ff701b67c6_o.jpg
Located 65 million light-years away ia a blue supergiant star that once existed inside a cluster of young stars in the spiral galaxy NGC 3938, as shown in this artist's concept. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-h-p1847a_f5400x3600.png
In the wake of a fire, a burn scar appears which takes a long time to heal. This scar is from the Woolsey fire which has taken its toll around Thousand Oaks, California. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/woolsey1.jpg
The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard, is seen above the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC, on Nov. 17, 2018. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ng_crs-10_jefferson_memorial_nhq201811170100.jpg
International Space Station crew brought aboard the latest Russian Progress cargo craft. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/384g9174.jpg
On Nov. 20, 1998, the Zarya Functional Cargo Block launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to serve as a temporary control module for the nascent International Space Station. This October 2018 photo shows the station today, fully complete. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/44911459904_375bc02163_k.jpg
A new study using observations by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reports for the first time that silica — one of the most common minerals found on Earth — is formed when massive stars explode. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia22569-snr-g54.jpg
NASA social media participant Bryan Branly takes a photograph of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) model before the Mars InSight pre-landing briefing. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/44232019690_20809a9223_k.jpg
NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Melanie Saunders and astronaut Mike Massimino ring the closing bell of Nasdaq after the NASA's InSight lander successfully touched down on the surface of Mars. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/31126336767_e68c3ac5bb_k.jpg