The Cassini spacecraft surveys Saturn's outstretched ring system in the infrared from a vantage point high above the planet's northern…
The Aura spacecraft, atop the Boeing Delta II rocket, successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California on…
How do we know that dark matter isn't just normal matter exhibiting strange gravity? A new observation of gravitationally magnified…
This 1963 photograph shows vent flowing cryogenic fuel and T/C Rake mounted on a 1/10 scale model Centaur rocket in…
On May 14, 1607, a group of London-based entrepreneurs and accompanying laborers, collectively known as the Virginia Company, made landfall…
Astronaut Steve Smith works on Hubble during STS-82, the second servicing mission in 1997, using a specially designed tool that…
Dust pillars are like interstellar mountains. They survive because they are more dense than their surroundings; however, they are being…
It's all smiles for Expedition 9 Flight Engineer Mike Fincke after a landing in Kazakhstan on Saturday, Oct. 23. Fincke…
A new striking image from the infrared telescope shows a vibrant cloud called the Trifid Nebula dotted with glowing stellar…
Cosmonauts Fyodor N. Yurchikhin (right) and Oleg V. Kotov (center), Expedition 15 commander and flight engineer, respectively, representing Russia's Federal…
