
This week in 2009, space shuttle Atlantis launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Flight Center on an 11-day mission to the…

The Apollo 12 Lunar Module (LM), in a lunar landing configuration, is photographed in lunar orbit from the Command and…

The Webb telescope team is preparing to begin placement of all 18 of the telescope's primary flight mirrors onto the…

Early November 2015 brought cloudy skies and intriguing patterns over the Prince Edward Islands in the South Indian Ocean. The…

In November, farmers typically harvest rice and sow wheat. After the harvest, they often set fire to leftover plant debris…

On November 16, 2015 the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) image on the Suomi NPP (National Polar-orbiting Partnership) satellite…

Although Dione (near) and Enceladus (far) are composed of nearly the same materials, Enceladus has a considerably higher reflectivity than…

This map shows the route driven by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from the location where it landed in August 2012…

This animation flips back and forth between views taken in 2010 and 2014 of a Martian sand dune at the…

This view taken from orbit around Mars shows the sand dune that will be the first to be visited by…