The sun-orbiting SOHO spacecraft has imaged many erupting filaments lifting off the active solar surface and blasting enormous bubbles of…
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a galaxy that appears to be sizzling hot, with huge plumes…
Planet HD 209458b is evaporating. It is so close to its parent star that its heated atmosphere is simply expanding…
As the New Horizons spacecraft continues its journey, it gives to those of us who are Earth bound breathtaking images…
The Expedition 10 and 11 crews give the "thumbs up" after the change of command ceremony on the International Space…
Crisp details in a suite of mid-latitude gullies on a crater wall are captured in this Mars Global Surveyor Mars…
Northeastern Argentina's Ibera Swamp was photographed from aboard the International Space Station by Leroy Chiao, the Expedition 10 commander. The…
A growing black hole, called a quasar, can be seen at the center of a faraway galaxy in this artist's…
U.S. Air Force Thunderbird F-16 jets fly in formation past the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. Later…
Endeavour sits atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (a modified 747) in Palmdale, California, where the orbiter was built, ready for…
