
Workers make final preparations to a Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft on Nov. 4, 2013, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

When radiation and winds from massive young stars impact clouds of cool gas, they can trigger new generations of stars…

Ready for launch – the orange and white parachute has been attached.

3C 397, also known as G41.1-0.3, is a galactic supernova remnant with an unusual shape.

IRIS joins a large Heliophysics System Observatory to help study the sun's interactions with Earth and the solar system.

From the first three years of Kepler data, more than 3,500 potential worlds have emerged.

JSC2013-E-091789 (3 Nov. 2013) --- In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the prime and backup Expedition…

JSC2013-E-091781 (3 Nov. 2013) --- In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer Koichi…

JSC2013-E-091783 (3 Nov. 2013) --- In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer Koichi…

JSC2013-E-091782 (3 Nov. 2013) --- In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 38/39 Flight Engineer Rick…