
Illuminated by the light of nearby stars, the nebula M-78 exhibits a ghostly appearance.

An Expedition 38 crew member aboard the International Space Station took this photograph showing a part of South Africa's Atlantic…

Engineers examine NASA's TDRS-L satellite after its rotation into place inside the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., for…

Workers unload NASA's TDRS-L satellite from the hold of a C-17 transport aircraft at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's…

U.S. Sen. John H. Glenn Jr. (D.-Ohio), gets help with final touches of the donning of his partial-pressure launch and…

In the launch pad's White Room, STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., U.S. Senator from Ohio, has his flight…

Researchers have confirmed the existence of giant convection cells flowing slowly on the sun, lending further insight into the origin…

Data from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory reveals giant cells on the sun with convective…

The heat shield for NASA's Orion spacecraft was loaded onto a Super Guppy plane in Manchester, N.H. on Dec. 4,…

A bright nova in the constellation of Centaurus has become visible for a few days for observers in the Southern…