A trio of astronauts from the Return to Flight crew train for their flight by floating in NASA's famed KC-135…
NASA's International Sun-Earth Explorer C (ISEE C) was undergoing testing and evaluation inside Goddard's dynamic test chamber when this photo…
This artist's concept illustrates the two types of spiral galaxies that populate our universe: those with plump middles, or central…
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this "true color" mosaic of a small portion of the Orion Nebula, taken the Wide…
As it rockets toward its July 1 entry into Saturn's orbit, NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is capturing some stunning views of…
Two spots of snow cover the peaks of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on the main island of Hawaii in…
A Saturn V rocket streaks toward space on the night of December 17, 1972, carrying the Apollo 17 crew, the…
Intricate wisps of glowing gas float amid a myriad of stars in this image created by combining data from NASA's…
The shadow of the moon falls on Earth as seen from the International Space Station, 230 miles above the planet,…
STS-120 mission specialist Doug Wheelock participated in the third scheduled spacewalk as construction continued on the International Space Station. During…
