The sun rises on the Space Shuttle Discovery as it rests on the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, California,…
This view of the Apollo 13 Lunar Module (LM) was photographed from the Command Module (CM) just after the LM…
Looks can be deceiving, especially when it comes to celestial objects like galaxies and nebulas. These objects are so far…
One of the most volcanically active regions of the world is the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Siberia, where it is…
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured Dione against the globe of Saturn as it approached the icy moon for its close rendezvous…
As space shuttle Endeavour raced into space to begin the STS-123 mission, an amateur photographer captured this view from the…
The Plane of the Ecliptic is illustrated in this Clementine star tracker camera image which reveals (from right to left)…
Scientists who study dust storms have long known that Saharan dust can travel across the Atlantic to the Americas. Asian…
A mere 6,000 light-years distant and sailing through the constellation Vela, star cluster RCW 38 is full of powerful stars.…
Is this a scene from a corny science fiction movie of the 1950s? This 1951 image actually is of scientists…
