The Expedition 10 and 11 crews give the "thumbs up" after the change of command ceremony on the International Space…
Crisp details in a suite of mid-latitude gullies on a crater wall are captured in this Mars Global Surveyor Mars…
Northeastern Argentina's Ibera Swamp was photographed from aboard the International Space Station by Leroy Chiao, the Expedition 10 commander. The…
A growing black hole, called a quasar, can be seen at the center of a faraway galaxy in this artist's…
U.S. Air Force Thunderbird F-16 jets fly in formation past the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. Later…
Endeavour sits atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (a modified 747) in Palmdale, California, where the orbiter was built, ready for…
In this artist's concept of the future, an astronaut gathers samples on the surface of Mars, while a robotic explorer…
One of the largest and brightest spiral galaxies found in the Virgo cluster of galaxies, this image of galaxy NGC…
Strange shapes and textures can be found in the neighborhood of the Cone Nebula. These patterns result from the tumultuous…
Why does Jupiter have rings? Jupiter's rings were discovered in 1979 by the passing Voyager 1 spacecraft, but their origin…
