In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt designated August 19 as National Aviation Day in honor of Orville Wright’s birthday, directing…
Burning in Siberia took off in springtime, when smoke from deadly fires in southern Russia crossed the Pacific Ocean and…
Smoke continues to pepper the skies over western and central Washington State from several wildfires.
Fires abound throughout Angola, Zambia, Mozambique and even on the island of Madagascar in this image taken by Terra.
Workers are preparing the Orion spacecraft that flew on Exploration Flight Test-1 in 2014 for transport.
NASA Astronaut Drew Feustel, left, Actor Matt Damon, Director Ridley Scott, Author Andy Weir, and Director of the Planetary Science…
Actor Matt Damon, who stars as NASA Astronaut Mark Watney in the film “The Martian,” smiles after having made his…
This view of a test rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, results from advance testing of arm positions…
Curiosity's Russian-made instrument for checking hydration levels in the ground beneath the rover detected an unusually high amount at a…
This low-angle self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the site from which it reached down to…
