STS-103 payload commander Steven L. Smith retrieved a power tool while standing on the mobile foot restraint at the end…
A computer-generated view shows the bottom of the Space Shuttle Discovery in flight with the new Remote Manipulator System/Orbiter Booster…
One of the highest mountain reliefs on Earth can be found in the tiny country of Bhutan. Sandwiched between eastern…
The largest river on the planet, the Amazon, forms from the confluence of the Solimões (the upper Amazon River) and…
Scattered debris from a cosmic supernova explosion lights up the sky in this gorgeous composited image based on data from…
From left to right: Sigmar Wittig, head of the German Space Agency; William Gerstenmaier, NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations;…
The Optical Spectroscopic and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS) camera on board the Rosetta spacecraft observed Earth during its swing-by…
The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (now Spitzer Space Telescope) whizzes in front of a brilliant, infrared view of the Milky…
In 1991, the governments of Denmark and Sweden agreed to build a bridge to connect the two countries across the…
This photograph shows the salt ponds of one of Africa's major producers of soda ash (sodium carbonate) and salt. Soda…
