The largest spacecraft welding tool in the world, the Vertical Assembly Center, officially is open for business at NASA's Michoud…
Data from the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity show an unusual enrichment of silicon…
This mosaic, taken with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the planned…
This graphic shows the geologic cross-section through lower Mount Sharp on Mars.
This image, taken with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, shows distinct bands of alternating tone and brightness…
The backplane of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope looks like the springs in a mattress.
Project Mercury astronaut John Glenn enters the Friendship 7 on Feb. 20, 1962. At 9:47 a.m. EST, he lifted off…
On June 3, 1965, Ed White became the first American to step outside his spacecraft and let go, setting himself…
A collaboration of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and NASA, SciSAT-1 measures the chemical and dynamic processes that control the…
Jet Propulsion Laboratory technicians make final preparations and begin closing the metal "petals" of the Mars Pathfinder lander.
