On the craft's maiden voyage, the crew of space shuttle Columbia took this image that showcases the blackness of space…
Color-coded full sky neutral atom map, as obtained with IBEX at energies where the interstellar wind is the brightest feature…
In mid-October 2011, NASA scientists working in Antarctica discovered a massive crack across the Pine Island Glacier, a major ice…
NASA Administrator James T. Webb holds the microphone as President Lyndon B. Johnson (center) and astronaut Walter Schirra (right) converse…
Workers at Cape Kennedy watch a 224-foot-high Saturn 1B rocket lift off from Launch Complex 34 carrying Apollo 7 astronauts…
The command module and service module for the Apollo 11 mission are moved to the work stand in preparation for…
Astronaut John H. Glenn sits in a car in front of the east side of the Mercury Mission Control building.…
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden played host to 45 Brazilian Youth Ambassadors on Friday, Jan. 27, in the NASA Headquarters auditorium,…
With hardware from the Earth-orbiting International Space Station appearing in the near foreground, a night time European panorama reveals city…
Under the wave of energetic particles from the Halloween 2003 solar storm events, the Earth's radiation belts underwent significant changes…