A European Space Agency (ESA) mission, Mars Express Orbiter’s goal is to examine the possibilities for past or present life…
Mars Odyssey was built to determine the composition of Mars, detect water and ice close to the surface, and study…
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 is poised to take the next giant leap in tracking climate-changing carbon dioxide with 100,000 measurements…
A 170-foot powerhouse -- the Vertical Assembly Center -- will soon be ready to build the core stage of NASA's…
One of the first steps taken on the Moon, this is an image of Buzz Aldrin's bootprint from the Apollo…
Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., wearing a Mercury pressure suit, is photographed at Cape Canaveral, Florida, during preflight training activities…
This animated sequence combines 36 interpolated images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, each separated by 20 minutes. This comet is the destination…
The OSIRIS instrument on the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft photographed the mission's destination comet on July 14, 2014, from…
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) first interplanetary mission, MOM studies Martian topography, morphology, mineralogy, and atmosphere. MOM’s orbit also…
RS-25 rocket engine No. 0525 is positioned onto the A-1 Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi in…