The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed images to date of the open star clusters NGC 265 (top)…
A NASA satellite has captured the first occurrence of mysterious shiny polar clouds that form 50 miles above Earth's surface.…
A trio of astronauts from the Return to Flight crew train for their flight by floating in NASA's famed KC-135…
NASA's International Sun-Earth Explorer C (ISEE C) was undergoing testing and evaluation inside Goddard's dynamic test chamber when this photo…
This artist's concept illustrates the two types of spiral galaxies that populate our universe: those with plump middles, or central…
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this "true color" mosaic of a small portion of the Orion Nebula, taken the Wide…
As it rockets toward its July 1 entry into Saturn's orbit, NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is capturing some stunning views of…
Two spots of snow cover the peaks of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on the main island of Hawaii in…
A Saturn V rocket streaks toward space on the night of December 17, 1972, carrying the Apollo 17 crew, the…
Intricate wisps of glowing gas float amid a myriad of stars in this image created by combining data from NASA's…
