When the sun reflects off the surface of the ocean at the same angle that a satellite sensor is viewing…
The full beauty of the Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is revealed in this new, detailed view from NASA's Hubble…
Astronauts Jim Reilly and John Olivas (visible among Reilly's helmet reflections), both STS-117 mission specialists, participate in the mission's first…
Astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (top), Expedition 14 commander and NASA space station science officer, and cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, flight engineer…
Concluding mission STS-115, Atlantis and her crew return to Kennedy Space Center and approach a landing before sunrise on Runway…
This is one of a series of images photographed with a digital still camera featuring the different areas of the…
Compared to Old World settlements like Rome and Alexandria, Egypt, Cape Cod is fairly young. Cape Cod's geology is fairly…
Expedition 16 commander Peggy A. Whitson participated in the 100th spacewalk for the construction and maintenance of the International Space…
Though ghostly in appearance like a hologram, aerogel is very solid and feels like hard styrofoam to the touch. Aerogel…
Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter lifts off from Cape Canaveral on May 24, 1962, in his Aurora 7 capsule. The fourth…
