Space Contents Archive

What's it like to live on another world... without leaving the Earth? Our Human Exploration Research Analog team is helping gain insight into how humans might handle isolation in deep-space travel—and they're answering your questions NOW on @Reddit: https://t.co/b1WJHKu5y1 https://t.co/n7Q3q8MMKe

The station is pictured from the @SpaceX #CrewDragon Endeavour during a fly around on Nov. 8, 2021. More pix... https://t.co/2LPTJBM4F0 https://t.co/0h9BBIKvIC

The @NASAInSight lander has entered safe mode to conserve energy as a regional dust storm limits sunlight from reaching its solar panels. The mission team said its power is holding steady and are hopeful it can exit safe mode next week. https://t.co/bD3ubSTtnO https://t.co/jTa2NcmzZ5

Still cruising toward its operating orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope completed a transformation into its final dimension Saturday with the last of some 50 post-launch deployments. https://t.co/AmmkowbNRv https://t.co/ji3hzVVt2C

Squirreling away snacks? So is this squirrel ancestor, Douglassciurus jeffersoni, who lived 38 to 34 million years ago in what is now Wyoming. In our @NMNH, it's holding its own fossil walnut from the same period, the Eocene. https://t.co/u4Dc7RBOY6

It's a lab for life-saving science, an orbiting Earth observatory, a testbed for humanity's exploration of the Moon and Mars. The @Space_Station is a meeting ground in space for countries and explorers from around the world—and we're extending its operations through 2030. https://t.co/nxzhgDwuZF

NASA Announces New Chief Scientist, Senior Climate Advisor

My interpretation of a part of the Pillars of Creation as a mythical creature

The Exp 66 crew explores space botany and biology while gearing up for @SpaceX #CargoDragon departure and Russian spacewalk. https://t.co/zSeWMVTIAY

NASA's newly launched X-ray space telescope is ready to start observing the cosmos https://t.co/bpEyk16HLf https://t.co/cYP3fXMoUZ

Stephen's Quintet

Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on STS-72, today in 1996. The mission was to retrieve a Japanese microgravity research spacecraft known as Space Flyer Unit (SFU). https://t.co/j5t29qT6Q2

From wakeup songs beamed to Mars rovers, to music videos created by astronauts, the playlist of songs in space is vast. 🎶Do you know what was the first song broadcast from Earth orbit? https://t.co/1fs3Ayd3JX

Climate researchers from NASA and @NOAA will discuss their assessments of 2021 global temperatures and major climate trends during a media telecon at 11am ET (16:00 UTC) on Thursday, Jan. 13: https://t.co/uRb5S8Rzl3 https://t.co/cjRWMYUjqb

The sun used to have rings like Saturn https://t.co/QAvBSE220P https://t.co/oavxCGVE6W