This composite image shows the jet from a black hole at the center of a galaxy striking the edge of…
This 1967 photograph shows S-1C-8 (the first stage) of a Saturn V rocket being lowered to a horizontal position at…
The Shuttle Discovery and the STS-96 crew made history in May 1999 when they became the first crew and orbiter…
This artist's concept shows a view across a mysterious disk of young, blue stars encircling a supermassive black hole at…
This artist's conception symbolically represents complex organic molecules, known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, seen in the early universe. These large…
Warm ocean waters fuel hurricanes, and there was plenty of warm water for Katrina to build up strength once she…
The Magellan probe that orbited Venus from 1990 to 1994 was able to peer through the thick Venusian clouds and…
Launched in the mid-1960s, the Ranger fleet of spacecraft provided live television transmissions of the moon from lunar orbit for…
Nearly two weeks after landing in Gusev Crater, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has rolled off of its lander and…
This close-up view of the X-38 crew return vehicle under the wing of NASA's B-52 mothership prior to launch of…
