The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds. Located around 10 million light-years away in…
Simulated ocean salinity data for NASA's Aquarius instrument. Aquarius, launching this June aboard the international Aquarius/SAC-D observatory, will map the…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers detonated explosives at the Birds Point levee near Wyatt, Missouri, at 10:02 p.m. on…
A masterpiece of deep time and wrenching gravity, the tortured surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus and its fascinating ongoing geologic…
STS-133 commander Steven Lindsey, far left, presents a montage to President Barack Obama as crew members Michael Barratt, pilot Eric…
With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun's blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings…
Cassini imaging scientists used views like this one to help them identify the source locations for individual jets spurting ice…
During its one-year mission, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mapped the entire sky in infrared light. Among the…
The Expedition 27 crew photographed this sunset over western South America from aboard the International Space Station. The station crew…
European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori, a member of the STS-134 crew, is pictured in the rear station of a…
