NASA's X-43A research vehicle has screamed into the record books, demonstrating an air-breathing engine can fly at nearly 10 times…
Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This…
New York's Finger Lakes region is seen in this December 2004 image from the International Space Station. Shapes of the…
Dreamy colors ranging from pale rose to butterscotch to sapphire give this utterly inhospitable gas planet a romantic appeal. Shadows…
Rabe Crater lies among hundreds of thousands of other impact craters in the rough-hewn southern highlands of Mars. Spanning 108…
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was formed on March 3, 1915, with a charter to "supervise and direct…
Attired in Russian Sokol launch and entry suits, cosmonauts Fyodor N. Yurchikhin (right), Expedition 15 commander, and Oleg V. Kotov,…
This artist's concept compares the size of a gargantuan star and its surrounding dusty disk to that of our solar…
Pilot Bill Dana looks up as the B-52 "mothership" cruises over NASA's HL-10 "lifting body" on Muroc Dry Lake, California,…
Why does the Sombrero Galaxy look like a hat? Reasons include the Sombrero's unusually large and extended central bulge of…
