Project RED SOCKS was to be "the world's first useful moon rocket," proposed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of…
In the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, General Dynamics technicians check the GLAST spacecraft as…
In the mobile service tower on Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, United Launch Alliance technicians…
This clash of clusters provides striking evidence for dark matter and insight into its properties.
A thin layer of water frost is visible on the ground around NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander in this image taken…
Galaxies don't normally look like this. That's because this image of NGC 3256 shows two galaxies that are slowly colliding.…
Eta Carinae, one of the most massive and unstable stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, has a profound effect on…
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found an answer to a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by…
This artist's rendering depicts NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft as it studies the outer limits of the heliosphere-a magnetic 'bubble' around…
The M2-F1, the unlikely forefather to the shuttle, was the world's first manned lifting body. Made of wood with an…