On October 8, 2014, active regions on our Sun gave it the appearance of a jack-o'-lantern.

In June 2021, NASA received its first sample of asteroid Ryugu, which was returned to Earth in December 2020.

This celestial lightsaber does not lie in a galaxy far, far away, but rather inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida lifted the Orion spacecraft and placed it atop the Space Launch System Moon rocket.

The Hubble Space Telescope's glamour shots of the universe nearly always have a discovery behind them.

A vivid aurora streams over the Earth as the International Space Station orbited 274 miles above the southern Indian Ocean.

SpaceX Cargo Dragon resupply ship is pictured as it backs away from the International Space Station.

With the Lucy spacecraft aboard, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is seen as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility.

The primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope that consists of 18 hexagonal mirrors looks like a giant puzzle piece standing in the massive clean room of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The telescope will help piece together puzzles scientists have been trying to solve throughout the cosmos.

On April 29, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery approaches for landing on a concrete runway at Edwards Air Force Base to complete a highly successful five-day mission during which the Hubble Space Telescope was released into orbit. On board are astronauts Loren Shriver, Charles Bolden, Bruce McCandless II, Kathryn Sullivan and Steven Hawley.

In this April 25, 1990, photograph taken by the crew of the STS-31 space shuttle mission, the Hubble Space Telescope is suspended above shuttle Discovery's cargo bay. Inside the spacecraft for STS-31 were astronauts Loren J. Shriver, Charles F. Bolden (NASA Administrator 2009-2017), Bruce McCandless II, Kathryn D. Sullivan and Steven A. Hawley.

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have studied one particular explosion that may provide clues to the dynamics of other, much larger stellar eruptions.

This image of Ceres was taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on March 1; on March 6, the mission achieved orbit around the previously unexplored world.

From a distant galaxy to the relatively nearby debris field of an exploded star, images demonstrate the myriad ways that information about the universe is communicated to us through light.

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with NASA’s Orion spacecraft mounted atop, lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37 at at 7:05 a.m. EST, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, in Florida.

The Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft is rolled out to the launch pad by train on Friday, Nov. 21, 2014 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for Nov. 24 and will carry Expedition 42 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA , and Flight

An image taken by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft shows jets of dust and gas escaping from the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

Engineers took another step forward in preparations for the first test flight of NASA’s new Orion spacecraft in December.

A few days after autumn showed up on the calendar in the Northern Hemisphere, it showed up on the landscape of North America. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this view of fall colors around the Great Lakes on Sept. 26, 2014.The changing of leaf color in temperate forests i