Near Space Corporation technician Mark Williamson and assistants check the prototype structural integrity data acquisition payload.
The NSC balloon carrying the NMT prototype data acquisition payload begins its ascent from the Madras, Ore., airport.
Earth is surrounded by a giant magnetic bubble, called the magnetosphere.
The Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, Dragon spacecraft stands inside a processing hangar at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in…
On Feb. 16, 1965, the eighth Saturn I flight known as the SA-9, Saturn I Block II, lifted off from…
This artist's rendering of the Van Allen Probes mission shows the path of its two spacecraft through the radiation belts…
Asteroid 2012 DA14 and the Eta Carinae Nebula, with the white box highlighting the asteroid's path.
NASA engineers conducted the first in a new round of tests on the next-generation J-2X rocket engine Feb. 15 at…
Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors fly on SOFIA Observatory
ISS034-E-046383 (11 Feb. 2013) -- An unpiloted ISS Progress resupply vehicle approaches the International Space Station, carrying 1,764 pounds of…
