The Egg Nebula is taking a beating. Like a baby chick pecking its way out of an egg, the star…
This artist's concept shows a brown dwarf surrounded by a swirling disk of planet-building dust. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope spotted…
The yearly ritual of spring cleaning clears a house of dust as well as dust "bunnies," those pesky balls that…
A satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a wonder of the southern sky, a…
This astronaut photograph, taken on February 26, 2003, is centered on the Kingdom of Denmark. The entire region is overlain…
The Mars 2001 Odyssey spacecraft's Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) captured this stunning landscape in the red planet's Meridiani Planum…
Marshall Space Flight Center Director Dr. Wernher von Braun presents Lady Bird Johnson with an inscribed hard hat during the…
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, April 14, en route to the…
In a splendid portrait created by light and gravity, Saturn's lonely moon Mimas is seen against the cool, blue-streaked backdrop…
On Nov. 14, 1969, Apollo 12 launched and became America's second successful mission to the moon. This close-up view of…
