Image of the DayThis artist's concept shows a brown dwarf surrounded by a swirling disk of planet-building dust. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope spotted...This image of the mountainous Shenandoah National Park was acquired by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission aboard the Space Shuttle...The Egg Nebula is taking a beating. Like a baby chick pecking its way out of an egg, the star...Fed by multiple waterways, Brazil's Negro River is the Amazon River's largest tributary. The river courses through the country's Jau...NASA Station Science Officer Ed Lu snapped this stunning image of the wildfires ravaging Southern California's San Bernardino National Forest...This latest color "postcard from Mars," taken on Sol 5 by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit,...The yearly ritual of spring cleaning clears a house of dust as well as dust "bunnies," those pesky balls that...A satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a wonder of the southern sky, a...Marshall Space Flight Center Director Dr. Wernher von Braun presents Lady Bird Johnson with an inscribed hard hat during the...The Mars 2001 Odyssey spacecraft's Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) captured this stunning landscape in the red planet's Meridiani Planum...A Russian Soyuz spacecraft blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, April 14, en route to the...This astronaut photograph, taken on February 26, 2003, is centered on the Kingdom of Denmark. The entire region is overlain...On Nov. 14, 1969, Apollo 12 launched and became America's second successful mission to the moon. This close-up view of...In a splendid portrait created by light and gravity, Saturn's lonely moon Mimas is seen against the cool, blue-streaked backdrop...This bubble of ionized gas and warm dust, called RCW 79, lies in the southern Milky Way, 17,200 light years...Space Shuttle Endeavour cuts a bright swath through the dark sky during this night-time launch in January 1998. Nearly six...In the Arabian Sea, the combination of sunlight and nutrients has fueled a startling occurrence of colorful phytoplankton and bacteria,...The drag chute is deployed behind Space Shuttle Discovery to help slow its landing, marking the successful conclusion of the...One year ago today, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit touched down on the red planet. Three days later, it sent...On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 lifted off for the moon with Commander Jim Lovell, Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert...NASA and the world lost seven brave explorers on Feb. 1, 2003, when the shuttle Columbia broke apart during re-entry....This artist's conception shows the relative size of a hypothetical brown dwarf-planetary system compared to our own solar system. A...This image shows the Martian terrain in 3-D. The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured the image with its panoramic camera.This 1981 photograph shows a space shuttle main engine undergoing a full power level 290.04 second test firing at the...A view from the Space Shuttle Atlantis gives a good look of Hurricane Gordon. At the time the photo was...On the southwest coast of Africa, the soft orange sands of Namibia's coastal desert rise to a rugged interior plateau,...This artist's concept of the proposed Mars Sample Return mission shows the entry, descent and landing sequence that the lander...This montage of images of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, was taken by the New Horizons spacecraft's flyby in...The Delta II rocket that carried the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit sat ready for launch at Kennedy Space Center in...Planetary nebula NGC 2440 has an intriguing bow-tie shape in this stunning view from space. The nebula is composed of...Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth's horizon, the updated International Space Station is seen from Discovery as the...A promontory nicknamed Cape Verde can be seen jutting out from the walls of Victoria Crater in this false-color image...Resembling an aerial fireworks explosion, this dramatic image of the energetic star WR124, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals...Visible through a window on Endeavour's aft flight deck, astronaut Rick Linnehan participates in the mission's third scheduled spacewalk. During...Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center test a model of the Shooting Star Experiment (SSE), designed to develop and...With the Atlantic Ocean as a backdrop, an Atlas V launch vehicle, 19 stories tall, with a two-ton Mars Reconnaissance...Expedition 12 commander William S. McArthur, Jr. (right) and cosmonaut Valery I. Tokarev (left) participate in a training session in...Ephemeral Lake Carnegie, in Western Australia, fills with water only during periods of significant rainfall. In dry years, it is...This view featuring a sunrise dissecting a line of airglow of Earth's atmosphere was photographed by an STS-114 crewmember onboard...Anchored to a Canadarm2 mobile foot restraint, astronaut Rick Linnehan participates in the mission's first scheduled spacewalk. During the seven-hour...
