The U.S. Navy's test of Vanguard rocket, along with its satellite payload, went hopelessly awry when the rocket failed to…
The Phoenix Mission, slated for launch in August 2007, is the first project in NASA's program of Mars Scout missions.…
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a view of what may be the youngest galaxy ever seen. This "late bloomer"…
Monument Valley provides one of the most enduring and definitive images of the American West. The isolated red mesas and…
The second image of Comet Wild 2 from NASA's Stardust spacecraft shows a distant side view of the roughly spherical…
STS-120 mission specialist Scott Parazynski participated in the second of five scheduled spacewalks as construction continues on the International Space…
The Glenn Research Center's Icing Research Tunnel is the world's largest refrigerated wind tunnel. During tests of a heated-air system…
Variations in ring particle concentration give Saturn's brilliant rings the appearance of ripples in a pond in this close-up view…
A crucial step in the Mars Sample Return mission would be to launch the collected sample away from the surface…
Gamma rays produce flashes that are brighter than a billion suns yet last only a few milliseconds and have been…
