Liftoff! Orbital Antares Rocket Launches From Wallops Flight Facility The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017
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Our Living Earth … From Space Can you identify this river?
Mariner 9 Sees Shield Volcano on Mars On November 14, 1971, Mariner 9, the first spacecraft to orbit the Red Planet, took this image of a shield volcano on Mars.
How to See the Atmosphere How can you see the atmosphere? The answer is blowing in the wind.
Sunrise Flight to the Space Station Orbital ATK’s Cygnus resupply ship with its cymbal-ike UltraFlex solar arrays approaches the International Space Station on Nov. 14, 2017.
Jovian Tempest This color-enhanced image of a massive, raging storm in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
Behold! Observing the Sun A broad hole in the corona was the Sun’s dominant feature November 7-9, 2017.
Tending Your Garden … In Space If you plant it, will it grow (in space)? The answer is yes, at least for certain types of plants.
The Beauty of Ice Ice can be stunningly beautiful and also quite varied in its appearance.
Star Wanders Too Close to a Black Hole This artist’s rendering shows the tidal disruption event named ASASSN-14li, where a star wandering too close to a 3-million-solar-mass black hole was torn apart. The debris gathered into an accretion disk around the black hole.