
The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft is rolled out by train to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad, Sunday, May 26, 2013, in…

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Ligeia Mare, shown here in a false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission, is the second largest known body of liquid…

This image shows a cutting-edge solar-electric propulsion thruster in development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., that uses xenon…

Gibran, the large impact crater at the top of today's featured image, hosts a somewhat irregularly shaped 30-km-diameter pit. Such…

The bright floor of the crater Lermontov, first imaged by Mariner 10, stands in contrast to the surrounding terrain of…

In Mercury's northern plains, Abedin crater stands out as a relatively fresh impact crater. Impact melt that fractured as it…

Inside the large peak-ring basin Praxiteles sits this small, unnamed crater that has been partially flooded with volcanic material. The…

Within Praxiteles, several potential volcanic vents are visible. One such vent, in the bottom left of this image, is particularly…