The Centurion solar-powered aircraft was one of an on-going series of vehicles designed for ultra-long-duration flight at high altitudes. The…
The second generation X-1s used the same wing, horizontal tail, and XLR-11 rocket engine as the first generation aircraft, with…
This image of an area on the surface of Mars, approximately 1.5 by 3 kilometers in size, shows frosted gullies…
X-rays stream off the sun in this image showing observations from by NASA's NuSTAR, overlaid on a picture taken by…
Saturn’s main rings, seen here on their “lit” face, appear much darker than normal.
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, an X1.8, peaking at 7:28 p.m. EST on Dec. 19, 2014. NASA’s Solar…
Before there was a “Silicon Valley,” there was the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory between Mountain View and Sunnyvale in California, founded…
A Convair 990 (CV-990) aircraft formerly used by NASA as a medium-altitude research platform was used at Dryden as a…
NASA's Orion spacecraft arrives at the Launch Abort System Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The famous Horsehead nebula seen in visible-light images (inset) looks quite different when viewed in infrared light, as seen in…
