NOAA's Premier Weather Forecast Model Goes 4-D | Department of Commerce

NOAA's Premier Weather Forecast Model Goes 4-D | Department of Commerce: NOAA’s powerful new supercomputers paved the way for another upgrade to the U.S. Global Forecast System (GFS), NOAA’s primary model for weather prediction. Today’s upgrade builds on last year’s significant boost to the GFS, which more than doubled the resolution of the model grid from 27 kilometers to 13 kilometers, resulting in higher resolution model output and more precise weather forecasts and warnings.

It's our birthday! | NSF - National Science Foundation

It's our birthday! | NSF - National Science Foundation

Mercury Solar Transit

Mercury Solar Transit

NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Future Mission Crew Members

NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Future Mission Crew Members

NASA, FAA Demonstrate Wireless Communication with Aircraft

NASA, FAA Demonstrate Wireless Communication with Aircraft

Light Echoes Used to Study Protoplanetary Disks

Light Echoes Used to Study Protoplanetary Disks

Ice Scours the North Caspian Sea

Ice Scours the North Caspian Sea

Morning Sunglint Over the Pacific

Morning Sunglint Over the Pacific

Staying Strong: Spaceflight Muscle Loss Study Aims to Benefit Patients on Earth

Staying Strong: Spaceflight Muscle Loss Study Aims to Benefit Patients on Earth

Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives | NSF - National Science Foundation

Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives | NSF - National Science Foundation

Preparing the Vehicle Assembly Building for NASA's Next Rocket

Preparing the Vehicle Assembly Building for NASA's Next Rocket

Computers play a crucial role in preserving the Earth | NSF - National Science Foundation

Computers play a crucial role in preserving the Earth | NSF - National Science Foundation

NASA's Fermi Telescope Poised to Pin Down Gravitational Wave Sources

NASA's Fermi Telescope Poised to Pin Down Gravitational Wave Sources

Liftoff at NASA's 16th Annual Student Launch Challenge

Liftoff at NASA's 16th Annual Student Launch Challenge: One of dozens of high-powered rockets lifts off on April 16, 2016, during NASA's 16th annual Student Launch challenge, held near Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama from April 13-16. Nearly 50 middle and high school, college and university teams from 22 states competed in the challenge.

Y Marks the Spot

Y Marks the Spot: A sinuous feature snakes northward from Enceladus' south pole like a giant tentacle.

Early Ice Breakup of Beaufort Sea Due to Early Warm Temperatures

Early Ice Breakup of Beaufort Sea Due to Early Warm Temperatures: This image of early ice breakup of the Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska, was taken by the Suomi NPP satellite's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument infrared channel, at around 1148 UTC on April 13, 2016.

April 14, 1981, Landing of First Space Shuttle Mission

April 14, 1981, Landing of First Space Shuttle Mission

T-38C Passes in Front of the Sun at Supersonic Speed

T-38C Passes in Front of the Sun at Supersonic Speed

NASA to Attach, Test First Expandable Habitat on International Space Station

NASA to Attach, Test First Expandable Habitat on International Space Station: The first human-rated expandable structure that may help inform the design of deep space habitats is set to be installed to the International Space Station Saturday, April 16. NASA Television coverage of the installation will begin at 5:30 a.m. EDT.

The Great Divide

The Great Divide: It's difficult to get a sense of scale when viewing Saturn's rings, but the Cassini Division (seen here between the bright B ring and dimmer A ring) is almost as wide as the planet Mercury.

Mission Manager Update: Kepler Spacecraft in Emergency Mode

Mission Manager Update: Kepler Spacecraft in Emergency Mode

This Week@ NASA, April 8, 2016

This Week@ NASA, April 8, 2016: SpaceX Dragon Launches to the ISS, NASA Seeds Planted in White House Garden and more ...

Busy Traffic at the International Space Station

Busy Traffic at the International Space Station: Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA took this photograph on April 6, 2016, as the International Space Station flew over Madagascar, showing three of the five spacecraft docked to the station. The station crew awaits the scheduled launch today, April 8, of the third resupply vehicle in three weeks: a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft.

April 7, 1991, Deployment of Breakthrough Gamma-ray Observatory

April 7, 1991, Deployment of Breakthrough Gamma-ray Observatory

Computer-Simulated Image of a Supermassive Black Hole

Computer-Simulated Image of a Supermassive Black Hole: Astronomers have uncovered a near-record breaking supermassive black hole in an unlikely place: in the center of a galaxy in a sparsely populated area of the universe. The observations, made by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Telescope in Hawaii, may indicate that these monster objects may be more common than once thought.

Slimmed Down Aircraft Wing Expected to Reduce Fuel and Emissions by 50%

Slimmed Down Aircraft Wing Expected to Reduce Fuel and Emissions by 50%

NASA Awards Second-Round Prizes in Cube Quest Challenge

NASA Awards Second-Round Prizes in Cube Quest Challenge

SOFIA Releases New Map of Orion’s Horsehead Nebula

SOFIA Releases New Map of Orion’s Horsehead Nebula

Alluvial Fans in Saheki Crater, Mars

Alluvial Fans in Saheki Crater, Mars

Liftoff of Cygnus Cargo Ship, Atlas V Rocket on Mission to International Space Station

Liftoff of Cygnus Cargo Ship, Atlas V Rocket on Mission to International Space Station

NASA Licenses New Communication Technology for Unmanned Aircraft

NASA Licenses New Communication Technology for Unmanned Aircraft

Hubble, Chandra, Jansky VLA Telescopes Collaborate on Galaxy Cluster

Hubble, Chandra, Jansky VLA Telescopes Collaborate on Galaxy Cluster: In October 2013 Hubble kicked off the Frontier Fields program, targeting six massive galaxy clusters, enormous collections of hundreds or even thousands of galaxies. MACS J0717, shown here, is one of the most complex galaxy clusters known, the result of four galaxy clusters colliding.

March 16, 1966: Gemini's First Docking of Two Spacecraft in Earth Orbit

March 16, 1966: Gemini's First Docking of Two Spacecraft in Earth Orbit: On March 16, 1966, command pilot Neil Armstrong and pilot David Scott successfully docked their Gemini VIII spacecraft with the Agena target vehicle, the first-ever linking of two spacecraft together in Earth orbit. This crucial spaceflight technology milestone would prove vital to the success of future moon landing missions.

South Africa From the Space Station's EarthKAM

South Africa From the Space Station's EarthKAM: The remotely controlled Sally Ride EarthKAM aboard the International Space Station snapped this striking photograph of South Africa on Feb. 9, 2016. The EarthKAM program allows students to request photographs of specific Earth features, which are taken by a special camera mounted on the space station when it passes over those features.

Tilted Terminator

Tilted Terminator: NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Saturn's moon Enceladus that shows wrinkled plains that are remarkably youthful in appearance, being generally free of large impact craters.

Mission Manager Update: K2 continues to shine

Mission Manager Update: K2 continues to shine

This Week@ NASA, March 11, 2015

This Week@ NASA, March 11, 2015: Bolden testifies on FY 2017 NASA budget, First SLS flight engine test and more ...

NASA Selects Educators to Fly with Astronomers on SOFIA Airborne Observatory

NASA Selects Educators to Fly with Astronomers on SOFIA Airborne Observatory

SOFIA Observatory Indicates Star Eruptions Create and Scatter Elements with Earth-like Composition

SOFIA Observatory Indicates Star Eruptions Create and Scatter Elements with Earth-like Composition

All we are is dust in the interstellar wind | NSF - National Science Foundation

All we are is dust in the interstellar wind | NSF - National Science Foundation

Ahuna Mons on Ceres Seen From Low-Altitude Mapping Orbit

Ahuna Mons on Ceres Seen From Low-Altitude Mapping Orbit

Machines That Tell You When They're Sick

Machines That Tell You When They're Sick

Space sound system

Space sound system

Encapsulating ExoMars

Encapsulating ExoMars

One-Year Crew Returns to Earth

One-Year Crew Returns to Earth

This Week @ NASA, February 26, 2016

This Week @ NASA, February 26, 2016: Scott Kelly's One-Year Mission to the space station, tipping point technologies, NASA's journey to diversity, and more...

NASA Licenses New Communication Technology for Unmanned Aircraft

NASA Licenses New Communication Technology for Unmanned Aircraft

Moon village

Moon village

Two more Galileo satellites poised for launch in May

Two more Galileo satellites poised for launch in May

Flying Through the Aurora's Green Fog

Flying Through the Aurora's Green Fog

Freefall achieved on LISA Pathfinder

Freefall achieved on LISA Pathfinder

Fuelled for Mars

Fuelled for Mars

Jarosite in the Noctis Labyrinthus Region of Mars

Jarosite in the Noctis Labyrinthus Region of Mars

How a NASA Team Turned a Smartphone into a Satellite Business

How a NASA Team Turned a Smartphone into a Satellite Business

Flowers Harvested on the Ground and in Space for Deep-Space Food Crop Research

Flowers Harvested on the Ground and in Space for Deep-Space Food Crop Research

Hubble Watches the Icy Blue Wings of Hen 2-437

Hubble Watches the Icy Blue Wings of Hen 2-437

Sentinel-3: Technology and heritage

A Half-Enceladus

A Half-Enceladus

Comet landscape

Comet landscape

Satellite in a shoebox

Satellite in a shoebox

Aurora and the Pacific Northwest

Aurora and the Pacific Northwest

Jason-3 Satellite Launches

Jason-3 Satellite Launches

Jason-3 Satellite Prepared For Launch

Jason-3 Satellite Prepared For Launch

‘X’ Marks a Curious Corner on Pluto’s Icy Plains

‘X’ Marks a Curious Corner on Pluto’s Icy Plains

Pluto’s Wright Mons in Color

Pluto’s Wright Mons in Color

View over an alien world

View over an alien world

Astro-H ready for launch

Astro-H ready for launch

Exposed ice on Rosetta’s comet confirmed as water

Exposed ice on Rosetta’s comet confirmed as water

Starburst Spider

Starburst Spider

Dark pools on Titan

Dark pools on Titan

Hubble Sees a Supermassive and Super-hungry Galaxy

Hubble Sees a Supermassive and Super-hungry Galaxy

NASA Awards Contract for Aerospace Facilities Support

NASA Awards Contract for Aerospace Facilities Support

Northern lights

Northern lights

Schiaparelli emerges

Schiaparelli emerges

2016 preview

2016 preview

Triple Play

Triple Play

Power to ISS

Power to ISS

Preparing for an asteroid strike

Preparing for an asteroid strike