The Escondida copper, gold and silver open-pit mine in Chile's Atacama Desert is seen in this image from the Advanced…
Astronaut Jim Reilly (on robot arm) joins forces with his colleagues inside the shuttle and station, as well as flight…
This majestic view, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, tells an untold story of life and death in the Eagle…
This artist's concept shows a supermassive black hole at the center of a remote galaxy digesting the remnants of a…
NASA scientists announced today, March 2, 2004, that evidence found by the Opportunity rover suggests water once flowed at its…
On September 8, 1969, a transporter carried the 363-foot-high Apollo 12 Saturn V space vehicle from the Vehicle Assembly Building's…
Scientists recently discovered that polar stratospheric clouds, long known to play an important role in Antarctic ozone destruction, are occurring…
In this artist's conception, a possible newfound planet spins through a clearing, detected around the star CoKu Tau 4 by…
During its tenure aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 13 passed a major milestone: as of late August 2006, more…
Har Nuur, or the Black Lake, is located in western Mongolia's Valley of Lakes, part of a system of closed…