In 2002, NASA produced the Blue Marble, the most detailed true-color image of the Earth's surface ever produced. Using data…
Robert Goddard, a pioneer in rocket development, received patents for a multi-stage rocket and liquid propellants in 1914 and published…
Cassini peers around the hazy limb of the frigid moon Titan to spy the sunlit south pole of Saturn in…
How can something as big as a star go undetected? The answer is dust. Stellar nursery DR21 is shrouded in…
Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean climbs down the lunar module Intrepid, joining Pete Conrad on the moon, November 19, 1969.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, then known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, launches from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station…
Roll-out of the Progress 24 vehicle occurred on schedule at 7:00 a.m., Jan. 16, 2007 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.…
A Boeing Delta II rocket, left, fires its engines on Saturday, Nov. 20, sending NASA's Swift satellite into orbit from…
Astronaut Piers J. Sellers works on the shuttle's Remote Manipulator System/Orbiter Boom Sensor System during the mission's first scheduled session…
Light-years in length, this cosmic tornado is actually a powerful jet cataloged as HH (Herbig-Haro) 49/50. Though such energetic outflows…
