Employees at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are accustomed to seeing a lot of action in the skies overhead.…
Resembling a swirling witch's cauldron of glowing vapors, the black hole-powered core of the Circinus Galaxy lies 13 million light-years…
Marshall Space Flight Center scientist Ed West assembles the optical system of the Solar Ultraviolet Magnetograph Investigation (SUMI) telescope. SUMI…
December, 1962 - Official portrait photograph of Astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., the first American to orbit the Earth in…
Food, fuel and shelter: vegetation is one of the most important requirements for human populations around the world. Satellites monitor…
Technicians installing the tertiary mirror onto the SOFIA telescope.
I Zwicky 18's youthful appearance, resembling that of galaxies typically found only in the early universe, belies its true age.…
Probing a glowing bubble of gas and dust encircling a dying star, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a wealth of…
A bearded Walter Schirra, Apollo 7 commander, gazes out the rendezvous window in front of the commander's station on the…
This Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity Pancam "super resolution" mosaic of the approximately 6 meter (20 foot) high cliff face of…
