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…
Work continues on NASA's Pegasus barge, which is undergoing refurbishments at Conrad Shipyard LLC in Morgan City, Louisiana.
The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA-III), pictured here, successfully launched at 11:27 a.m. EST Wednesday, Dec. 17, and was the…
Global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations from Oct. 1 through Nov. 11, as recorded by NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2.