Crew-2 are seen as they prepare to depart for Launch Complex 39A during a dress rehearsal on Sunday, April 18, 2021, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

Spectacular jets are powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules A.

The night lights of Tokyo, Japan, are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above the island nation.

This image, taken by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory in 2012, shows an extraordinary outburst from a black hole.

In April 2019, ablack hole and its shadow were captured in an image for the first time.

When space shuttle Columbia took to the skies, a new era of spaceflight took wing.

Mary W. Jackson (second from left) seen in 1984 Student Symposium at Langley Research Center.

A sea of dark dunes, sculpted by the wind into long lines, surrounds Mars’ northern polar cap and covers an area as big as Texas.

Today is World Health Day and we’re funding studies to determine whether environmental factors influence the spread of the virus.

The Soyuz rocket is rolled out by train to the launch pad at Site 31, Tuesday, April 6, 2021, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.