Falkland Islands Seen From Orbit

The remote archipelago of the Falkland Islands, also known as the Islas Malvinas

Polygons are of great interest because they often indicate the presence of shallow ice or of desiccation such as in a mud flat. However, Nature sometimes seems too clever for us.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket carrying the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T), is secured on the pad at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Feb. 28, 2022.

The Expedition 66 crew kicked off the week working on robotics, spacesuits, and advanced research equipment.

Webb continues on its path to becoming a focused observatory.

Scientists developed a neural network deep learning technique to extract hidden turbulent motion information from observations of the Sun.

A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has provided an important clue to the origin of the element Ytterbium in the Milky Way

Researchers at the Barcelona Expert Center (BEC) of the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) have proved that satellite-derived salinity improves marine circulation prediction in the Arctic, which, as in the rest of the planet, is directly influenced by this and other parameters such as temperature.

NGC 3576 is a giant HII region of glowing gas located about 9,000 light years from Earth.

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

An update on our Artemis I mission, test firing an Artemis rocket engine, and a resupply mission delivers to the space station... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA.

The build of a high-gain antenna, a nearly 10-foot-wide (3-meter-wide) dish, is underway for NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft.

HiRISE has been monitoring steep slopes on Mars because some of them reveal active processes.

Astronomers have been surprised by the closest source of mysterious flashes in the sky called fast radio bursts.

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

Rising above the crater pockmarked plain of Chryse Planitia, the objective of this observation is to examine mounds that have ridges and are located atop pedestals. The scene is also pictured in a Context Camera image.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now under construction, will test new technologies for space-based planet hunting.

A new way of dating collisions between asteroids and planetary bodies throughout our Solar System's history could help scientists reconstruct how and when planets were born.

A change in the volume of red blood cells has been documented in astronauts since the earliest space missions.

To celebrate the recent data release from Landsat 9, this week we take a closer look at a part of Washington state - the northwesternmost state of the US - through the lens of Landsat 9.

Spacewalk preparations and cancer research were among the activities scheduled aboard the International Space Station on Thursday.

This oblique image looking eastward toward the sunlight of dawn was taken by an External High-Definition Camera (EHDC) on the International Space Station.

If you could ride along with NASA's Juno spacecraft as it approaches Jupiter during one of its regular close passes by the giant planet, you would be treated to a striking vista similar to this one.

About 20 inches (50 centimeters) across on average, the boulders in the foreground are among the type of rocks the rover team has named "Ch'al" (the Navajo term for "frog" and pronounced "chesh").

A new NASA sounding rocket mission will soon take to the Alaskan skies.

Locked in an epic cosmic waltz 9 billion light years away, two supermassive black holes appear to be orbiting around each other every two years.

Space travel can be agonizingly slow: For example, the New Horizons probe took almost 10 years to reach Pluto.

New human research is underway aboard the International Space Station using the microgravity environment to gain unique insights into aging skin cells and cancer tumors.

ISS crew: "Welcomed the S.S. Piers Sellers cargo vehicle to the International Space Station yesterday."

At this location, a portion of the Cerberus Fossae seems to intersect with the edge of a lava flow or other feature nearly perpendicular to the fossae.

Five years ago, astronomers revealed a spectacular collection of other worlds: the TRAPPIST-1 system.

A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured in a new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

This study is led by Dr. Zhiyong Xiao (Planetary Environmental and Astrobiological Research Laboratory, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University), who is a core scientific team member of the first in-situ lunar mission to the Moon, Chang'E-4.

Despite being close to Earth and having nearly the same size, Venus is another world.

A U.S. cargo craft is being unpacked today following its robotic capture and installation at the International Space Station early Monday morning.

MIT astronomers have obtained the clearest view yet of the perpetual dark side of an exoplanet that is "tidally locked" to its star.

This observation gives us a nice view of dunes on the floor of Capen Crater, located in Terra Sabea.

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst visited Thales Alenia Space in Turin recently to test out and provide feedback on accommodations for the next human outpost in space, the lunar Gateway.

The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the largest solar prominence eruption ever observed in a single image together with the full solar disc.

NASA is launching a prototype instrument that could make it easier to monitor volcanic activity and air quality.

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft installation on the International Space Station is now complete.

The Full Moon is pictured above the Red Sea as the International Space Station orbited 257 miles above the Nile River in the African nation of Sudan.

A portion of the Sahara Desert in Algeria, with sand dunes, rocky platforms and sandstone plateaus, is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 259 miles above the African nation.

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures one of three segments that comprise a 65-light-year wide star-forming region named the Chamaeleon Cloud Complex.

A new study published in Frontiers in Neural Circuits is the first to analyze the structural connectivity changes that happen in the brain after long-duration spaceflight.

Scientists have been studying Jupiter up close since the 1970s, but the gas giant is still full of mysteries.

The Dwarf Planet Ceres revealed the presence of ammonia and other unique properties compared to other asteroids in the main belt which suggests that it was not formed in situ.

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The next commercial cargo mission to the space station, celebrating the first year of Perseverance on Mars, and the first science images from a recently launched mission... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA.

New Zealand as seen from the International Space Station.

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with the company's Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launches at 12:40 p.m. EST, Saturday, Feb. 19., 2022, from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad-0A, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

This image shows some beautiful lava flows in Amazonis Planitia.

The rover has racked up a series of accomplishments, including new distance records, as it reaches the end of the first of several planned science campaigns on the Red Planet.

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

A U.S. resupply ship is poised to blast off Saturday morning on a day-and-a-half-long journey to replenish the International Space Station.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Tenerife - the largest of Spain's Canary Islands.

The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured on Valentine's Day from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.

The northwest coast of the African nation of Libya is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 259 miles above the Mediterranean Sea.

NASA's Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer which launched Dec. 9, 2021, has delivered its first imaging data since completing its month-long commissioning phase.

Americans can feel safer in their homes now than decades ago thanks to studies and standards that have removed highly flammable materials in clothing, beds, and furniture.

The X-rays reveal hundreds of young stars clustered in the center of the image and additional fainter clusters on either side.

Astrophysicists for the first time have calculated the original mass and size of a dwarf galaxy that was shredded in a collision with the Milky Way billions of years ago.

A U.S. rocket carrying Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter is counting down to launch toward the International Space Station on Saturday.

Mt. Everest (at center right) peaks in the Himalayas in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above southwest China.

One of the most exciting findings in planetary science in recent years is the discovery of interstellar objects passing through our solar system.

Astronomers have been waiting decades for the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which promises to peer farther into space than ever before.

The icy terrain surrounding the Manicouagan Reservoir, a lake formed by a prehistoric meteorite impact, is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above far eastern Canada.

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO's VLTI) has observed a cloud of cosmic dust at the centre of the galaxy Messier 77 that is hiding a supermassive black hole.

A Russian resupply ship is targeting the International Space Station for a cargo delivery early Thursday.

This image shows a crater on the floor of Eos Chasma, part of the Valles Marineris canyon system.

In central Namibia are long straight dunes along the western edge of the Kalahari Desert.

IZN-1, developed and now operated by ESA, is a testbed for future technologies and was installed in mid-2021 at the Teide Observatory.

The presumed SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that's on a course to hit the moon March 4 is actually a Chinese booster from a rocket launch in 2014, a University of Arizona team has confirmed.

Using carefully selected terrestrial rocks, engineers try to figure out how to work with crumbly rocks like the one the rover encountered on its first sampling attempt.

NOAA's' Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T) is in view inside the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Florida