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Renewing Partnerships
Renewing Partnerships

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson signed a Memorandum of Agreement today to…

NASA’s DC-8 Takes Off from Thule, Greenland
NASA’s DC-8 Takes Off from Thule, Greenland

Still from video showing NASA's DC-8 taking off for a science flight from Thule, Greenland. The first half of the…

The Birth of Stars
The Birth of Stars

This new Hubble photo is but a small portion of one of the largest seen star-birth regions in the galaxy,…

Cumulonimbus Cloud Over Africa
Cumulonimbus Cloud Over Africa

High above the African continent, tall, dense cumulonimbus clouds, meaning 'column rain' in Latin, are the result of atmospheric instability.…

Solar Flare Activity For First Light
Solar Flare Activity For First Light

Images taken by SDO immediately after the AIA CCD cameras cooled on March 30, 2010. This image shows several flares…

Separation Over Isla de Providencia
Separation Over Isla de Providencia

As the shuttle and the space station began their post-undocking relative separation, Expedition 23 flight engineer Soichi Noguchi photographed the…

Solar Dynamics Observatory First Light Image
Solar Dynamics Observatory First Light Image

Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) First Light composite image from March 30, 2010 including solar prominence.

Siberia’s Lena Delta
Siberia’s Lena Delta

The Lena River, some 2,800 miles long, is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the…

Another World
Another World

This other worldly landscape is actually Dagze Co, one of many inland lakes in Tibet. In glacial times, the region…

Homecoming
Homecoming

The space shuttle Discovery is seen as it lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Tuesday, April…