As if emerging from a cocoon, space shuttle Atlantis races into the sky on mission STS-122 to the International Space…
The Ghost Head Nebula, or NGC 2080, is a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of…
George Washington not only served as the namesake for the capital city of the United States, he also chose its…
Stars are born out of icy cocoons of gas and dust in this diagram illustrating the earliest journeys of water…
This 1965 photograph of the lunar landscape shows a model made using a technique developed by Dr. Eugene M. Shoemaker…
Astronomers were surprised to discover a 25-million-year-old protoplanetary disk around a pair of red dwarf stars 350 light-years away in…
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin watches the solid rocket booster separation from firing room four during the launch of the Space…
Space Shuttle Discovery lands at Edwards Air Force Base at 8:12 a.m. EDT on August 9 after spending nearly two…
Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxies, containing a vast number of…
NASA continues its steady progress toward Return to Flight with a key milestone at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.…
