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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, launched aboard Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021.

This image shows the James Webb Space Telescope atop its launch vehicle, but before it was encapsulated in the rocket fairing.

This image, captured by the Landsat-8 satellite, shows the view over Western Australia on May 12, 2013.

The spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 3318 are lazily draped across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This spiral galaxy...

On Jan. 27, 1967, tragedy struck on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy during a preflight test for Apollo 204 (AS-204).

Dr. Christian Braneon, a climate scientist at NASA GISS, presents data visualizations and the state of current satellite missions...

Mathematician Daniel G. Nichols, who worked in the Real-Time Program Development Branch, Mission Planning and Analysis Division, is...

Dr. Lyndsey McMillon-Brown at NASA’s Glenn Research Center leads a study of solar cells made from a material called perovskite.

Melba Roy Mouton (1929-1990) was a mathematician and computer programmer in NASA’s Trajectory and Geodynamics Division.

In this image, Glover celebrated his birthday during his stay on the station.

Astronaut Mark Vande Hei peers at the Earth below from inside the seven-windowed cupola, the International Space Station's window...

This artist's concept shows exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbiting around its host red dwarf star.

This image from 2020 shows a flame that was one of many ignited as part of the Flame Design investigation on the space station.

This Hubble Space Telescope image captures a portion of the reflection nebula IC 2631, which contains a protostar, the hot, dense...

In this image, the COWVR and TEMPEST instruments are shown in the trunk of the cargo craft.