NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found an iron meteorite on Mars, the first meteorite of any type ever identified…
This 1987 image shows scientists testing a model aircraft in the Langley Research Center's Spin Tunnel. Some aircraft use parachutes…
This photograph from 1966 shows the Zero Gravity Facility at Lewis Research Center, now known as John H. Glenn Research…
The Aleutian Islands and the Alaskan peninsula are shown in this image acquired by the MODIS on the Terra satellite,…
NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this true color mosaic of Jupiter, the most detailed global color portrait of the planet ever…
With a fiery liftoff, Space Shuttle Atlantis roars off the launch pad for a rendezvous with the International Space Station…
Launched on Dec. 2, 2005, SOHO observes the sun's deep interior and also its interactions all the way out to…
This artist's concept depicts a pulsar, which is a type of dead star, as well as the surrounding disk of…
Technician Durwood Dereng prepares to pull the external-power plug from an E17 drag-research model at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on…
In this, the first extravehicular activity, or spacewalk, of the STS-116 mission, astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, Jr. participates in activities…
