As space shuttle Endeavour raced into space to begin the STS-123 mission, an amateur photographer captured this view from the…
The Plane of the Ecliptic is illustrated in this Clementine star tracker camera image which reveals (from right to left)…
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…
