Image of the DayMission Specialist Soichi Noguchi traverses along the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station between tasks of the mission's third...A massive dust storm of glacial sediments swept off the coast of Alaska on November 5, 2005. The Moderate Resolution...A star 40 times more massive than our sun is blowing a giant bubble of material into space. In this...How does a space shuttle that landed in California get back to Florida for its next launch? The answer is...This image mosaic, taken by the panoramic camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, shows the rover's landing site, the...Trailing columns of fire, space shuttle Endeavour hurtles into the night sky, on the STS-123 mission, which lifted off was...A close-up view of a portion of Space Shuttle Discovery's underside is featured in this image photographed by Astronaut Stephen...An SR-71B from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California slices across sky above the snowy southern Sierra Nevada Mountains...This view of Dione, Saturn's icy moon, highlights its tectonic faults and craters. To create this enhanced-color view, ultraviolet, green...Encircled in purple stratospheric haze, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, appears as a softly glowing sphere in this colorized image taken...The photo, taken on January 1, 1963, shows the "energy flash" that occurs when a projectile launched at speeds up...The STS-117 crewmembers and Johnson Space Center's (JSC) director Michael L. Coats (right) are photographed during the STS-117 crew return...With its thick, distended atmosphere, Titan's orange globe shines softly, encircled by a thin halo of purple light-scattering haze. This...This false-color image of two density waves in Saturn's A ring was made by the Cassini-Huygens Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph instrument....This view of a full moon was photographed by the Expedition 10 crew orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Station....The bright sun dissects the airglow above Earth's horizon in this view photographed with a digital still camera from the...Sliding through Earth's shadow, the Moon turned haunting shades of red and orange during October 27th's widely viewed total lunar...Astronomers have long known that Saturn's rings reflect sunlight most strongly when Earth is located directly between Saturn and the...A clear, beautiful and blistery cold night made for perfect viewing of February's lunar eclipse. This image was taken at...Vacuum spheres at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia have been dusted by a light fall of snow in this...NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao, left, and Russian cosmonaut Salizhan S. Sharipov will serve as Expedition 10 on the International Space...Cleveland's Glenn Research Center began as the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA's predecessor)....This color composite image of nearby galaxy NGC 300 combines visible-light (red and yellow) with ultraviolet views (blue) from NASA's...Astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have seen a lot of auroras in recent months. Usually the lights are...Isle Royale National Park includes a group of islands and the surrounding waters of Lake Superior. Access to the park...This image of the Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover inside Endurance Crater was produced using "Virtual Presence in Space" technology. Developed...The striking picture, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, reveals an eclectic mix of embryonic stars living in the tattered...In January 2002, a dull star in an obscure constellation suddenly became 600,000 times more luminous than our sun, temporarily...Preparations for dynamic stability tests of the Apollo Command Module and its launch escape system were observed by NASA engineer...Spacewalker Scott Parazynski, anchored to a foot restraint on the end of Discovery's boom, works to repair a damaged solar...The redesigned Shuttle External Tank, designated ET-120, sits in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida....The Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Sept. 18, 2006 carrying a new crew to the...An active volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon Io was captured in this false color image taken on February 22, 2000...The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. A blanket of icy...This composite image of the Crab Nebula shows x-ray (blue) and optical (red) superimposed.This view of Uranus was recorded by Voyager 2 on Jan 25, 1986, as the spacecraft left the planet behind...In December 2004, a neutron star flared up so brightly, it temporarily blinded all the x-ray satellites in space, and...The Spirit rover had to dig a little deeper to find out more about this martian rock, dubbed "Wishstone." Spirit...In visible light images, more than a thousand galaxies are seen to lie within a volume about 20 million light-years...A violent and chaotic-looking mass of gas and dust is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image of a nearby...
