ALT A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov onboard, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

ALT A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying three NASA-supported small spacecraft launched at 11:32 a.m. PDT Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, as part of the company’s Transporter-18 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

ALT A view of the Moon from space, showing its crater‑covered surface in deep shadow along the lower half and illuminated along the top. Just above the lunar horizon, a thin blue crescent of Earth rises against the blackness of space, creating a striking contrast between the gray, textured Moon and the glowing curve of Earth.

ALT A full moon, centered in the image, is pictured against the black of space. Credit: NASA

ALT Testing at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley in March 2026 demonstrated autonomous technology that could identify an incursion – a vehicle, wayward suitcase, or other runway obstacle that could impact an aircraft’s safe landing. NASA/Brandon Torres-Navarrete

ALT An astronaut onboard the International Space Station shot this photo of peak fall colors around Ottawa, the capital of Canada. Credit:NASA

ALT This almost full moon shining in the eastern night sky was photographed on June 12, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

ALT A near full moon is silver against the black of space. Below, various shades of blue glow from Earth’s atmosphere in this image taken from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

ALT In this view of the Moon, the near side (the hemisphere we see from Earth), is visible at the top half of the Moon disk. It is identifiable by the dark splotches. These are ancient lava flows from a time early in the Moon’s history when it was volcanically active. The large crater that appears below the lava flows, dark in the center, is Orientale basin, a nearly 600-mile-wide crater that straddles the Moon’s near and far sides as is partly visible from Earth on the edge of the Moon. In this image, we have a full view of the crater. Everything below the crater is the far side, the hemisphere we don’t get to see from Earth because the Moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that it orbits around us. Credit: NASA

ALT The south pole of Neptune is visible in this image, while the rest of the planet remains dark, blending into the black of space. The light emanating from the south pole creates an inverted crescent in shades of light blue, white, and orange. Credit: NASA/JPL

ALT NASA astronaut Jessica Meir photographed the New York City area from the International Space Station in March 2020. Credit: NASA

ALT The three moons shown here -- Titan (3,200 miles or 5,150 kilometers across), Mimas (246 miles or 396 kilometers across), and Rhea (949 miles or 1,527 kilometers across) -- show marked contrasts. Titan, the largest moon in this image, appears fuzzy because we only see its cloud layers. And because Titan's atmosphere refracts light around the moon, its crescent "wraps" just a little further around the moon than it would on an airless body. Rhea (upper left) appears rough because its icy surface is heavily cratered. And a close inspection of Mimas (center bottom), though difficult to see at this scale, shows surface irregularities due to its own violent history. This view looks toward the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Titan. North on Titan is to the right. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 25, 2015. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

ALT The National Full Scale Aerodynamic Complex (NFAC) wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center.

ALT The National Full Scale Aerodynamic Complex (NFAC) wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center.

ALT National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex, or NFAC, 40-by 80-foot Test Section Flow Characterization Test

ALT A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope transiting the Sun as it lifts off to space. The rocket's trail creates a fluffy plume that extends below the Sun. The background sky is a golden haze. Credit: NASA/John Kraus

ALT A diagram depicting the partial lunar eclipse occuring on Aug 28, with times in UTC marking the different stages of the eclipse. Credit: NASA's Scientific VIsualization Studio

ALT Composite image of the Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31). Andromeda is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. Astronomers use Andromeda to understand the structure and evolution of our own spiral, which is much harder to do since Earth is embedded inside the Milky Way. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/UMass/Z. Li & Q.D. Wang, ESA/XMM-Newton; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE, Spitzer, NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Gordon (U. Az), ESA/Herschel, ESA/Planck, NASA/IRAS, NASA/COBE; Radio: NSF/GBT/WSRT/IRAM/C. Clark (STScI); Ultraviolet: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GALEX; Optical: Andromeda, Unexpected © Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner, Yann Sainty & J. Sahner, T. Kottary. Composite image processing: L. Frattare, K. Arcand, J.Major

ALT Illustration of BioSentinel in deep space, with the Milky Way and Sun behind. Credit: NASA/Daniel Rutter

ALT Group photo of the new civil servants and guests with NASA and Ames Center leadership after the NASA Civil Servant Swearing-in Ceremony in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) 80-by-120-foot test section, N221. Credit: NASA/Brandon Torres Navarrete

ALT Participants stand while Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya administers the Oath of Office during the NASA Civil Servant Swearing-in Ceremony in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) 80-by-120-foot test section, N221. Credit: NASA/Brandon Torres Navarrete

ALT Participants stand while Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya administers the Oath of Office during the NASA Civil Servant Swearing-in Ceremony in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) 80-by-120-foot test section, N221. Credit: NASA/Brandon Torres Navarrate

ALT Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya gives remarks at the NASA Civil Servant Swearing-in Ceremony in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) 80-by-120-foot test section, N221. Credit: NASA/Brandon Torres Navarrate

ALT Illustration of Otter, a satellite servicing spacecraft, in low Earth orbit, traveling at roughly 17,500 mph around Earth. Credit: Starfish Space