NASA Image of the Day

This artist's impression of hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris shows the star's vast convection cells and violent ejections.

It's March 2021 and in about another month the Hubble Space Telescope will celebrate 31 years in space observing the universe.

Did you know that NASA's Kennedy Space Center shares its home with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge?

Kelly J. Latimer was a research pilot in the Flight Crew Branch of NASA's Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center.

On Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters sign is installed ahead of the building naming ceremony.

On Feb. 25, 2021, the NASA Headquarters Building in Washington D.C. was officially renamed after Mary W. Jackson, the agency's first African American female engineer.

This 2003 composite X-ray and optical image of galaxy NGC 1068 shows gas blowing away in a high-speed wind from the vicinity of a supermassive black hole.

This image depicts a possible area through which the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover could traverse across Jezero Crater.

This is the first high-resolution, color image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) on the underside of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover after its landing.

On Feb. 28, 2011, NASA astronaut Alvin Drew participates in the STS-133 mission's first spacewalk as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station.

NASAs Perseverance Rover lands on Mars.

During the Mars Perseverance engineering and technology overview on Feb. 16, 2021, chief engineer Adam Steltzner displays a rover wheel.

The Empire State Building is illuminated in red to celebrate this Thursday's scheduled landing on Mars of NASA's Perseverance rover, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021.

If we find life on the Red Planet, we'll have astrobiologists like Dr. Kennda Lynch to thank.

A physician, flight surgeon, and NASA astronaut, Bernard Harris became the first African American to perform a spacewalk in February 1995, .

There are more than 100,000 proteins in the human body. Every structure is different, and each one of them holds important information related to our health.

This stunning image captures a small region on the edge of the inky Coalsack Nebula, or Caldwell 99.

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 the coast of southern Chile.

In this image from 2018, NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps trains in a U.S. spacesuit at the Johnson Space Center.