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…
This view of the severely damaged Apollo 13 Service Module (SM) was photographed from the Lunar Module/Command Module (LM/CM) following…
New observations of Ceres, the largest known asteroid, have revealed that the object may be a "mini-planet," and may contain…
NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of phytoplankton in bloom in Australia's Shark Bay on November 6, 2004.
A large tornado that cut a 66-kilometer (41-mile) swath of destruction across southern Indiana and northwestern Kentucky in the early…
Attired in Russian Sokol launch and entry suits, NASA astronaut and Expedition 16 commander Peggy A. Whitson, the station's first…
This artist's conception illustrates the decline in our universe's "birth-rate" over time. When the universe was young, massive galaxies were…
An artist's concept shows the Astro-E2 spacecraft, set to launch this month. A joint effort between NASA and the Japan…
