A young sunflower plant is being closely monitored by the Expedition 38 crew members onboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station.
36 years after his historic Mercury flight, U.S. Sen. John Glenn returned to space on board the shuttle Discovery on…
One of the Expedition 37 crew members on Oct. 3 exposed this frame showing a Russian Soyuz vehicle docked to…
Comet Lovejoy is favorably located in the night sky for late-night observers.
Comet ISON is seen the lower right of this image from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory mission, captured at…
NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Expedition 38 flight engineer, works with Biolab hardware in the Columbus laboratory.
This image by NASA's Kepler spacecraft shows the telescope's full field of view taken in a new demonstration mode in…
Engineers have developed an innovative way to stabilize and control the spacecraft. This technique of using the sun as the…
The magenta spots in this image show two black holes in the spiral galaxy called NGC 1313, or the Topsy…
The magenta spots in this image show two black holes in the Circinus galaxy: the supermassive black hole at its…
