Image of the DayTen thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light must suddenly have appeared in the...In the year 1054 A.D., Chinese astronomers were startled by the appearance of a new star that was so bright...This image of northern Chile was acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on April 7,...The city of Seoul (originally known as Hanyang) has been the capital of Korea for more than 600 years and...In this artist's conception, observers peer through the dark dust of L1014 to witness the birth of a star. NASA's...Loops of highly charged particles burst from the sun's surface in this image, taken on Dec. 4, 2006. Among the...Astronaut Jim Reilly (on robot arm) joins forces with his colleagues inside the shuttle and station, as well as flight...This majestic view, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, tells an untold story of life and death in the Eagle...The Escondida copper, gold and silver open-pit mine in Chile's Atacama Desert is seen in this image from the Advanced...This artist's concept shows a supermassive black hole at the center of a remote galaxy digesting the remnants of a...On September 8, 1969, a transporter carried the 363-foot-high Apollo 12 Saturn V space vehicle from the Vehicle Assembly Building's...NASA scientists announced today, March 2, 2004, that evidence found by the Opportunity rover suggests water once flowed at its...Scientists recently discovered that polar stratospheric clouds, long known to play an important role in Antarctic ozone destruction, are occurring...In this artist's conception, a possible newfound planet spins through a clearing, detected around the star CoKu Tau 4 by...During its tenure aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 13 passed a major milestone: as of late August 2006, more...Har Nuur, or the Black Lake, is located in western Mongolia's Valley of Lakes, part of a system of closed...A new chapter in space flight began on July 1950 with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral,...On the verge of spring, the silvery etching of a tree appears across the winter white of western Alaska. Interlaced...The photo shows the "energy flash" when a projectile launched at speeds up to 17,000 miles an hour impacts a...Space Shuttle Discovery's crew witnessed this bright full moon from orbit during a December 1999 mission that included servicing the...The Shuttle Discovery, along with its External Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters, begins the long roll towards Launch Pad 39B...Like cascading snowflakes in the interstellar night, the strange shapes and textures of the stars in the Snowflake Cluster abound...The Franz Joseph Strauss, or Munich, International Airport served 29 million passengers in 2005, making it Germany's second-busiest airport. The...Infant stars glow gloriously in this infrared image of the Serpens Constellation's star-forming region, located approximately 8484 light-years away. Glowing...Saturn's fascinating meteorology manifests itself as a "string of pearls" formation, spanning more than 60,000 kilometers (37,000 miles). Seen in...This artist's concept of a gas giant planet orbiting a red dwarf K star shows a planet has not been...This glimpse of the Tibetan Lake Country north of Katmandu and west of Ihasa was photographed from by Gordon Cooper...Even with a good telescope you won't come across a sight quite like this one. It is a familiar object...Resembling a work of modern art, variegated green crop circles cover what was once shortgrass prairie in southwestern Kansas. The...Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968: Mission commander Frank Borman, command module pilot James Lovell and lunar module pilot William Anders...This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer found evidence...Nearly enveloped by the smoke after ignition, the Delta II rocket carrying NASA's Dawn spacecraft rises from the launch pad...The Day fire has been burning in Southern California's Ventura County since Labor Day, and has consumed more than 160,000...STS-117 mission specialist Steven Swanson participates in the mission's second extravehicular activity. Among other tasks, Swanson and fellow astronaut Patrick...Three thousand light-years away, the Cat's Eye Nebula, a dying star throws off shells of glowing gas. This image from...This Hubble Space Telescope image of the star V838 Monocerotis reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of surrounding dusty cloud...Eta Car is a massive star, but it's not as bright as it used to be. Now visible only in...Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, and astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (bottom), Expedition 14 commander and...This 1990 multiple exposure image shows the Puma Robotic Sensor Arm in action. The robot was used in virtual reality...Dominating the top third of Africa is the Sahra Desert, Earth's largest band of dry land. Stretching across the Sahara...
