The world's largest vacuum chamber resides at the NASA Glenn Research Center's Space Power Facility, located at Plum Brook Station…
Planet Kepler-10b is orbiting it star about 20 times closer to its star than Mercury is to our own Sun.…
Kepler-10b orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the spacecraft is monitoring between the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra. We…
This artist's conception shows the Kepler-11 planetary system and our solar system from a tilted perspective to demonstrate that the…
Kepler-11 is a sun-like star around which six planets orbit. At times, two or more planets pass in front of…
The German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies spectrometer, or GREAT, is mounted on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy's…
This image of Saturn's moon Helene was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Jan. 31, 2011.
This image of Saturn's moon Enceladus was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Jan. 31, 2011. It shows the famous…
A wreath is displayed at the foot of the Space Mirror Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in…
The German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies, or GREAT, instrument rests on its transport cart prior to installation on…