The Maldives As Seen From Orbit

Thomas Pesquet: The Maldives under clouds. You can still see the capital Malé and its airport. It is amazing how some of the islands are fully built-up and barely seem to stick out of the sea.

The surface of the Moon is a harsh environment with no air, low gravity, dust, and micrometeorites--tiny rocks or metal particles--flying faster than 22,000 mph.

Researchers from The University of Tokyo assimilated satellite observations of water vapor isotopes into a weather forecasting model and found that forecast accuracy was improved by several percentage points CREDIT Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo

Global light pollution has increased by at least 49% over 25 years, new research shows.

The Expedition 65 crew is back on microgravity research aboard the International Space Station today after kicking off September with three spacewalks in less than two weeks.

Red, green and blue in this aurora picture. The green is the standard aurora colour, but of course nothing is ever standard about these magnificent shows of nature!

Thomas Pesquet: My first spacewalk without Shane is a wrap, more than happy to be with Aki though!

Astrotourism brings new opportunities to generate sustainable socio-economic development, preserve cultural heritage, and inspire and educate the citizens of the globe.

Transporting a single brick to Mars can cost more than a million British pounds - making the future construction of a Martian colony seem prohibitively expensive.

Deep space is most likely going to be humanity's final frontier, and space travel will undoubtedly become much more common in the future.

It's challenging to make predictions, especially in astronomy. There are however, a few forecasts astronomers can depend on, such as the timing of upcoming lunar and solar eclipses and the clockwork return of some comets.

Spacewalk for Oleg and Pyotr complete!

Thomas Pesquet: Stranges shapes but not #CropArt: sometimes beauty is closer than 400 km below, as illustrated by the Russian service module's solar panels in close-up.

This star-studded image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope depicts globular cluster NGC 6717, which lies more than 20,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used two different cameras to create this selfie in front of Mont Mercou, a rock outcrop that stands 20 feet (6 meters) tall.

Scientists achieved first light with the Band 1 receiver on August 14, 2021

Forget about online games that promise you a "whole world" to explore. An international team of researchers has generated an entire virtual UNIVERSE, and made it freely available on the cloud to everyone.

SpaceCast Weekly is a NASA Television broadcast from the Johnson Space Center in Houston featuring stories about NASA's work in human spaceflight.

Two Expedition 65 astronauts are getting ready for a Sunday spacewalk to modify the International Space Station's power system.

An historic milestone for Perseverance, a busy week of activity at the space station, and a target launch date for the Webb Space Telescope... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.

On 6 September 2001, on one of those stunningly crisp, cool days Washingtonians crave, a hearing was held at the Russell Senate Office building on shuttle safety.

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos concluded their spacewalk at 6:16 p.m. EDT after 7 hours and 25 minutes.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Danube Delta - the second largest river delta in Europe.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover successfully collected its first pair of rock samples, and scientists already are gaining new insights into the region.

In recent years, meteorologists and climate scientists have been awed by the rapid intensification of several tropical cyclones around the world--a phenomenon that is believed to become more likely in a warming world.

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos concluded their spacewalk at 6:16 p.m. EDT after 7 hours and 25 minutes.

Most often, communications delays between the International Space Station crew and ground are nearly unnoticeable as they are routed from one Tracking and Data Relay Satellite to another as the station orbits about 250 miles above Earth.

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), a team of astronomers have obtained the sharpest and most detailed images yet of the asteroid Kleopatra.

As their name suggests, ultradiffuse galaxies, or UDGs, are dwarf galaxies whose stars are spread out over a vast region, resulting in extremely low surface brightness, making them very difficult to detect.

Skoltech alumnus Dr. Mikhail Dobynde and his colleagues from the U.S. and Germany have identified a window of opportunity for human spaceflight to Mars and back in the mid-2030s.

For centuries, explorers have tested the icy waters of the Arctic, looking for sea routes through the cluster of islands north of mainland Canada.

With scientists beginning to more seriously consider constructing bases on celestial bodies such as the moon, the idea of space mining is growing in popularity.

Megan McArthur @Astro_Megan Space Chile update: they're blooming🌸! I'm grinning!

Astronomers from the UNIGE have observed the composition of the gases in our galaxy and have shown that, contrary to the models established until now, they are not homogeneously mixed.

By all appearances, the universe beyond Earth is a vast, lonely, and sterile space. Yet, wherever humans may travel, an abundance of microbial life will follow.

On Aug. 14, 2021, a small near-Earth asteroid (NEA) designated 2021 PJ1 passed our planet at a distance of over 1 million miles (about 1.7 million kilometers).

We present the results of a search for outer Solar System objects in the full six years of data (Y6) from the Dark Energy Survey (DES).

The current target launch date for the James Webb Space Telescope is 18 December 2021.

🔵 Thomas Pesquet: I was invited to the Ocean Pavilion at the IUCN World Conservation Congress this week, I had to get a rain check for professional reasons 😉.

Two Expedition 65 cosmonauts will soon exit the International Space Station for the second spacewalk in less than week to continue configuring a Russian science module. Meanwhile, two astronauts are gearing up for another spacewalk, while the rest of the crew conducts space research and lab maintenance.

Scientists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and Rutgers University have used simple concepts from granular physics to explain the curious diamond shapes of two "near Earth" asteroids.

Could dying stars hold the secret to looking younger?

Thomas Pesquet: The Galápagos Islands are famous for their wildlife and Charles Darwin who studied the area, as well being a poster for bio-diversity 🐢.

In many situations, heart muscle cells do not respond to external stresses in the same ways that skeletal muscle cells do.

NASA's Perseverance rover today completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly thicker than a pencil.

Thomas Pesquet: A few night pictures from the Cupola: sometimes star lights battle it out with city lights for who's the brightest and more beautiful. I'm just lucky to get to be the judge.

Thomas Pesquet: Pyotr in the blue stripes doing his stuff at the base of the MLM module on the first spacewalk. They were connecting power and ethernet cables.

This 2017 enhanced-color image from the fifth Juno flyby of Jupiter shows a mysterious dark spot which seems to reveal a Jovian "galaxy" of swirling storms.

Thomas Pesquet: A sight we see often while flying over our planet: peas in the desert, a Pacman invasion, or Earth's record collection?

Astronomers have found dramatic evidence that a black hole or neutron star spiraled its way into the core of a companion star and caused that companion to explode as a supernova.

A long-distance call to space, space station cameras capture Hurricane Ida, and another successful cargo delivery to the station... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.

Two cosmonauts will exit the International Space Station on Friday to begin powering up the new Russian science module.

Thomas Pesquet: The SSRMS, also known as Canadarm2 for those who don't like acronyms, and DEXTRE, the two-armed smaller robot, hanging out in front of our window and lighting up their red lights at night. Feels like the deck of a ship in the night!

Technicians and engineers with Exploration Ground Systems and Jacobs connect the second ogive fairing for Orion's Artemis I mission to the launch abort system (LAS) inside the Launch Abort System Facility high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 23, 2021.

New analysis of Hayabusa2 data of the asteroid Ryugu reveals much of the surface reflects and scatters light in ways that are consistent with studies of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites in the lab.

Researchers can now hold stellar nurseries in their hands thanks to 3D printing, revealing features often obscured in traditional renderings and animations

Millions of people suffer from food insecurity around the globe. With the help of Earth-observing satellites, the NASA-USAID SERVIR project is hoping to reduce that number.

Perseverance will obtain additional imagery of the sample tube before potentially completing the process of collecting its first scientifically-selected Mars sample

The Expedition 65 crew continued unloading a variety of cargo including rodents from the SpaceX Cargo Dragon today.

Thomas Pesquet: Hurricane Ida is weakening, which is really good news, but it still did a lot of damage, and looks pretty impressive from space.

When NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover touched down on the Red Planet, the agency's Deep Space Network (DSN) was there, enabling the mission to send and receive the data that helped make the event possible.

Using a supercomputer simulation, a research team at Lund University in Sweden has succeeded in following the development of a galaxy over a span of 13.8 billion years.

The Earth is heating up. The effects of human-caused global climate change are becoming more and more apparent as we see more record-breaking heat waves, intense droughts, shifts in rainfall patterns and a rise in average temperatures. And these environmental changes touch every part of crop production.

The familiar star at the center of our solar system has had billions of years to mature and ultimately provide life-giving energy to us here on Earth. But a very long time ago, our sun was just a growing baby star.

The asteroid Vesta is the second largest asteroid in our solar system. With a diameter of about 330 miles, it orbits the sun between the planets Mars and Jupiter.

The Expedition 65 crew is unpacking brand new science experiments that arrived Monday when the SpaceX Cargo Dragon docked to the International Space Station.