This view of Tibet's Brahmaputra River was taken on Oct. 13, 2000, by the Expedition 3 crew. This Asian river…
These are some of the first pictures returned by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during its successful descent and…
STS-121 mission specialist Piers J. Sellers, wearing a training version of the space suit used for extravehicular activity (EVA), participates…
Twenty million years ago ocean covered the area where Panama is today, creating a gap between the continents of North…
This Cassini image is a color map of the composition of a portion of Saturn's moon Hyperion. In this map,…
Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., commander of the first manned Skylab mission, goes through a checklist of experiment activity during Skylab…
This artist's concept depicts a distant hypothetical solar system, similar in age to our own. Looking inward from the system's…
Eerie, dramatic pictures from the Hubble telescope show newborn stars emerging from "eggs" - not the barnyard variety - but…
Palm Island Resort, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is featured in this image photographed by Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao from…
In this 1980 photograph, an engineer at the Marshall Space Flight Center holding a replica of the proposed Liquid Booster…
