Even bubbles are more interesting in space. Here, a water bubble floats freely on the International Space Station, showing an…
NASA began development of new communication satellites in 1960, based on the hypothesis that geosynchronous satellites, which orbit Earth 22,300…
Anchored to the Space Shuttle Discovery's Remote Manipulator System/Orbiter Boom Sensor System foot restraint, STS-121 mission specialist Piers J. Sellers…
Backdropped by Earth's horizon and the blackness of space, the International Space Station appears small as it moves away from…
NASA's NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) Shoemaker spacecraft landed on the surface of the 21-mile long asteroid Eros on February…
The center of the Milky Way is a crowded neighborhood and not always a calm one, as seen in this…
NASA's Chandra observatory captured this false-color, x-ray image of the young star cluster NGC 346. The heart-shaped cloud sits in…
This is a cropped view of the first Navcam stereo mosaic from Spirit at Gusev crater. To see the image…
St. Thomas, St. John, Tortola and Virgin Gorda are the four main islands (front to back) of this east-looking view…
Expedition 11 Flight Engineer John Phillips smiles after a successful landing in Kazakhstan on Monday, October 10. Phillips and his…
