Category: NASA Picture Of the Day

Sunrise Over the Pacific
This view of a sunrise breaking through the Earth's horizon was taken as the International Space Station orbited 271 miles above the Pacific Ocean off [...]

Jeanette Epps: Astronaut and Aerospace Engineer
In this image from 2018, NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps trains in a U.S. spacesuit at the Johnson Space Center. [...]

Taken Under the ‘Wing’ of the Small Magellanic Cloud
The tip of the "wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this view from NASA's Great Observatories. [...]

Apollo 14 Arrives in Lunar Orbit on Feb. 4, 1971
Apollo 14 arrived n lunar orbit on Feb. 4, 1971 to prepare for the landing in and exploration of the Fra Mauro highlands. [...]

Seeing Our Moon from the Space Station
The waning gibbous moon is pictured the day after its full Moon phase as the International Space Station orbited 264 miles above China near the Mongol [...]