This image of the Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover inside Endurance Crater was produced using "Virtual Presence in Space" technology. Developed…
In January 2002, a dull star in an obscure constellation suddenly became 600,000 times more luminous than our sun, temporarily…
The striking picture, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, reveals an eclectic mix of embryonic stars living in the tattered…
The redesigned Shuttle External Tank, designated ET-120, sits in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.…
Spacewalker Scott Parazynski, anchored to a foot restraint on the end of Discovery's boom, works to repair a damaged solar…
Preparations for dynamic stability tests of the Apollo Command Module and its launch escape system were observed by NASA engineer…
The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. A blanket of icy…
An active volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon Io was captured in this false color image taken on February 22, 2000…
The Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Sept. 18, 2006 carrying a new crew to the…
This composite image of the Crab Nebula shows x-ray (blue) and optical (red) superimposed.
