Image of the DayAs Saturn advanced in its orbit toward equinox and the sun gradually moved northward on the planet, the motion of...Situated as it is near the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, the Kennedy Space Center hosts space shuttles and this...NASA Dryden's four F/A-18 mission support aircraft flew in formation for a pilot proficiency flight on Nov. 24, 2008, in...This image shows a part of the roughly circular supernova remnant known as RCW 86.The crescent Earth rises above the lunar horizon in this spectacular photograph taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in lunar...A United Launch Alliance Delta IV with the NASA/NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-O launched on June 27, 2009, from Space...Rising above the pad's fixed service tower, a Delta IV rocket soars into the sky with the GOES-O satellite aboard....A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev volcano (Russia's Kuril Islands,...The Voyager 2 spacecraft took this color photo of Neptune's moon Triton on Aug. 24 1989, at a range of...This image showing a portion of the San Andreas Fault along the San Francisco Peninsula was taken by the UAVSAR...This photo of the Sondrestrom Glacier in Greenland was taken from a window on NASA's Gulfstream III environmental research aircraft...A successful test of the Orion crew module's energy absorbing strut concept, was performed June 9, 2009, at the Landing...NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, rolled aboard their Atlas V...An United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasts off with NASA's LRO/LRCOSS mission from Space Launch Complex-41, Cape Canaveral Air...The oldest material on Earth which has yet been dated by man is a zircon mineral that is 4.4 billion...In this image, taken June 14, workers on Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A prepare to remove the 7-inch quick...Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's biggest explosions, capable of producing so much light that ground-based telescopes easily detect it billions...In the darkened interior of NASA's SOFIA flying observatory, NASA and German scientists study the results of system tests on...A small spiral galaxy is caught between two elliptical galaxies, in a cluster called the Hickson Compact Group 90. As...Unlike Earth the moon does not have air, food and water, so it would take a lot of effort for...This fish-eye camera lens view of the interior of the Apollo Lunar Module Mission Simulator at the Kennedy Space Center...A technician straps legendary test pilot Scott Crossfield into the cockpit of the X-15 rocket plane before an early test...This artist's concept illustrates how silicate crystals like those found in comets can be created by an outburst from a...NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured this image of comet Holmes in March 2008, five months after the comet suddenly erupted...This overhead view is of Atlantis atop a modified 747 as the craft flew over California's high desert. Atlantis and...Why are many large craters on Mercury relatively smooth inside? Images from the MESSENGER spacecraft that flew by Mercury in...This artist's concept shows the smallest star known to host a planet. The planet, called VB 10b, was discovered using...This composite image shows a small region of the Chandra Deep Field North. The diffuse blue object near the center...Space shuttle Atlantis is shown suspended from a sling in the Mate-DeMate Device at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center during...Flight Engineers Roman Romanenko, Frank De Winne and Robert Thirsk of the 20th International Space Station crew launched in their...NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its navigation camera to capture this view of the terrain toward the southeast from...Ground crews begin towing Space Shuttle Atlantis from the main runway at Edwards Air Force Base following its landing May...The crew of space shuttle Atlantis gathered on the runway at Edwards Air Force Base at the successful conclusion of...Atlantis and the crew of the STS-125 mission landed safely in California at Edwards Air Force Base after completing the...The STS-125 crew aboard space shuttle Atlantis captured this still image of the Hubble Space Telescope as the two spacecraft...The Hubble Space Telescope is pictured through an overhead window on the aft flight deck of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle...STS-125 mission specialist John Grunsfeld uses a still camera at an overhead window on the aft flight deck of the...Backdropped by the blackness of space and the thin line of Earth's atmosphere, space shuttle Atlantis' payload bay, Canadian-built remote...The space shuttle Atlantis' remote manipulator system arm lifts the Hubble Space Telescope from the cargo bay and is moments...The STS-125 crew took a final look at the Hubble Space Telescope on May 19, 2009, prior to the telescopes's...
