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Opportunity’s Devilish View from on High
Opportunity’s Devilish View from on High

From its perch high on a ridge, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this image of a Martian dust devil…

Check Fit for the Veg-03 Experiment
Check Fit for the Veg-03 Experiment

Check Fit for the Veg-03 Experiment

Forest Fires Blaze in Central United States
Forest Fires Blaze in Central United States

The National Interagency Coordination Center has reported on quite a few forest fires that have broken out in the central…

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

Every bit of weight on an aircraft increases the fuel, emissions and money required to put it in the air.

Forest Fires in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize
Forest Fires in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize

Fires were spotted in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize.

Airglow and Earth’s Magnetic Field
Airglow and Earth’s Magnetic Field

Around Earth's equator, bright swaths of color known as airglow, can appear hovering at about 50 to 300 miles above…

Saturn Askew
Saturn Askew

As a convention for public release, Cassini images of Saturn are generally oriented so that Saturn appears north up, but…

Moonset Viewed From the International Space Station
Moonset Viewed From the International Space Station

Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA took this striking photograph of the moon from his vantage point aboard…

Earth’s Pulsating Ionosphere
Earth’s Pulsating Ionosphere

A layer of charged particles, called the ionosphere, surrounds Earth, extending from about 50 to 360 miles above the surface…

Explorer XVII Satellite
Explorer XVII Satellite

Weighing 405 lbs. (184 kg), this 35-inch (89-cm) pressurized stainless steel sphere measured the density, composition, pressure and temperature of…