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.…
A Russian Soyuz rocket rumbles toward the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for tonight's launch to the…
Along the coast of California, the tectonic plate underlying the Pacific Ocean and the plate harboring the North American landmass…
Mythical home of Zeus, Mount Olympus is the highest peak in Greece, at 9,570 feet (2,917 meters). In this winter…
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft captured this image of a solar flare - the third most powerful ever…
