Space Contents Archive

US shoots down 'UFO' over Canada https://t.co/4EycHguska https://t.co/s2sIFyZziO

This week in 1970, Japan became the fourth country to launch its own satellite on its own rocket. The satellite was called Ohsumi. While its signal was detected less than a day, it continued to orbit Earth until 2003 when it reentered the atmosphere. https://t.co/x2exxDrcwd

@NASA_Johnson @NASA_Astronauts @Space_Station A fresh veggie platter for us! 🥬🍅 https://t.co/JmpEVDcYLJ

Last-quarter Moon, exactly so at 11:01 a.m. today. But the Moon doesn't rise until late tonight, around 2 a.m., in the head of Scorpius. By the time Tuesday's dawn begins it's high in the south-southeast and already slightly less than half lit. https://t.co/ojLQvVmwwK https://t.co/cN6dgY1EAZ

It's #PuppyBowl Sunday! While these canine "athletes" take to the gridiron, NASA-inspired technology is helping veterinarians heal pooches off the field. https://t.co/tl5UTDGZmP https://t.co/kBFRXdzWlb

Airships were flying aircraft carriers, once. The airship USS Macon crashed off the coast of California while operating as a flying aircraft carrier #OTD in 1935. It resulted in the end of dirigible-based operations of the Curtiss F9C-2 Sparrowhawks: https://t.co/ezbJ7mk27K https://t.co/lTAIIjzyZK

The city lights of the Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale metro area, home of Super Bowl LVII, glitter in these photos taken from the space station. 🌃🏈 More cities at night.. https://t.co/4yfkLZZfVU https://t.co/6VkNjfu0JC

The James Webb Space Telescope catches distant young galaxy devouring its neighbors https://t.co/IokIQ02yrq https://t.co/rj53tZ4dmQ

Here @NASA_Johnson, we develop, produce, test, and certify all food for human spaceflight missions. What will be your food of choice for this #SuperBowl Sunday? 📸: Crystal Wing https://t.co/UjnnSWdBc5

The “Face on Mars” captured by NASA’s Viking 1 orbiter in 1976 (left) and Mars Global Surveyor in 2001 (right)

On #TDIH in 2001, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. NEAR landed on Eros, sending back photos of the surface. #IdeasThatDefy https://t.co/2jLDvQhr4A

Cracks on Pluto's moon Charon may be evidence of a frozen subsurface ocean https://t.co/plpwhBRPXF https://t.co/bV3taYOMr0

The sun just erupted with a major X-class solar flare. Here's what it looked like on video. https://t.co/YIXzBqvNdP https://t.co/F0GhtW9XRL

'Black history is American history': NASA celebrates African Americans and space achievements at Smithsonian event https://t.co/jopaZFBvup https://t.co/iIMBuifpEc

Working on a realtime black hole