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From the famous Earthrise photo to stunning pictures of other worlds, NASA has captured millions of images that help us learn more about the universe around us.

Thanks to cameras and microphones on the Perseverance rover, you can experience both the sights and sounds of Mars.

The Space Canary is a NASA spinoff worth tweeting about.

NASA’s Orion spacecraft is designed to accommodate astronauts of all sizes who may need to spend weeks at a time in the capsule.

These Hubble images are stunning representations of cosmic fireworks that can be enjoyed by all.

The gases, made up of substances similar to those found in fireworks, created colorful clouds that allowed researchers to track the flow of neutral and charged particles within the auroral wind.

It’s her job to understand the different components of a spacecraft and then pull those all together in a simulation to give an estimate of how the vehicle’s going to perform during flight.

NASA continues to lead the preparation for planetary defense, looking for asteroids we know are out there waiting to be found.

SCALPSS data will help future landers safely deliver the larger, heavier payloads needed to put Artemis astronauts, and their equipment, on the Moon.

Exploring comets, asteroids, and small moons can be a difficult task.

Researchers supported by NASA’s Applied Sciences Disasters Program use satellites in space to gauge damage that natural hazards such as hurricanes and earthquakes cause on Earth.

In short flights from there, the Dragonfly rotorcraft will fly to dozens of promising locations on Titan.

The Venus rover is one of the visionary ideas currently being funded for study by NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program.

During the successful hot fire test, the core stage fired the engines for a little more than eight minutes, just like it will during every Artemis launch to the Moon.

Now, thanks to an off-the-shelf microphone that was added to capture sounds during touchdown, we can hear Perseverance as it begins to make tracks across the surface of Mars.

When choosing a crop for this hydroponic experiment, the company zeroed in on duckweed, better known now as space lentils.

NASA is using big data techniques to revolutionize biomedical research.

NASA will pair a mass spectrometer with a drill mounted on a rover to go out and look for resources on the Moon.

When NASA’s Orion spacecraft takes off, astronauts inside will be wearing new and improved, high-tech space suits.

Sometimes the most compelling locations on a planet’s surface are extreme landscapes that can be challenging for astronauts to investigate.