In this September 2000 image, NEAR Shoemaker's then-current 100-kilometer (62-mile) orbit gave it a bird's eye view of the asteroid…
About 1,600 light-years away, in a binary star system fondly known as J0806, two dense white dwarf stars orbit each…
"Yes, I have been to Barsoom again ..." begins John Carter in Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1913 science fiction classic "The…
The Crab Nebula is the shattered remnant of a massive star that ended its life in a supernova explosion. Nearly…
Was Saturn's moon, Phoebe, once a comet? Images from Cassini, taken when the spacecraft entered the neighborhood of Saturn, indicate…
This view inside of the Italian-built Harmony Node 2 was taken soon after its arrival at Kennedy Space Center. The…
On March 29, 2007, the Shiveluch Volcano on the Russian Federation's Kamchatka Peninsula erupted, sending an ash cloud skyward roughly…
The first images from NASA's Opportunity rover reveal what scientists are calling a "bizarre, alien landscape" at the landing site,…
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe visits Arlington National Cemetery on February 1, 2005, to lay a wreath honoring the crew of…
Over time, natural processes like floods and volcanoes deposit layers of rock on the Earth's surface and to delve through…
