Image of the DayBackdropped by the blackness of space, the Pirs docking compartment on the International Space Station was photographed by a crew...Carrying the Expedition 12 crew, a Soyuz TMA-7 that launched a few days earlier from the Baikinour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan...Space Shuttle Discovery landed on runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility at 9:14 a.m. EDT on Monday,...The side of a crater surrounding the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at Meridiani Planum on Mars can be seen in...The Alps may be more famous, but the Pyrenees have been around much longer - tens of millions of years...Space Shuttle Atlantis and the STS-117 crew returned home safely today, completing their 14-day mission to the International Space Station....The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds fly past Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in commemoration of NASA's 50th...Cassini conducts its first close flyby of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus (en-SELL-uh-duss) at a distance of approximately 1,180 kilometers (730...When it was constructed in 1969, the Space Power Facility (SPF) was the world's largest vacuum chamber. It stands more...The Space Shuttle Discovery hitched a ride on NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft for the flight from the...NASA and the Russian space agency kicked off a new era in international space cooperation in June of 1995, when...This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the diverse collection of galaxies 450 million light-years away in cluster Abell...This stunning image features the heat shield impact site of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. This is an approximately true-color...The ancient site of Carthage in North Africa is seen in this photo taken by the International Space Station's Expedition...The STS-121 crewmembers gather for an in-flight crew photo. From the left (bottom) are astronauts Stephanie D. Wilson, mission specialist;...The Hubble Space Telescope's latest image of the star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of...At the NASA Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility, the first of the aircraft carrying STS-123 crew members is ready...What if you saw your shadow on Mars and it wasn't human? Then you might be the Mars Exploration Rover...In 2002, NASA produced the Blue Marble, the most detailed true-color image of the Earth's surface ever produced. Using data...Somewhat of a different angle showing shuttle Discovery's vertical stabilizer and some of the cargo in the payload bay was...Robert Goddard, a pioneer in rocket development, received patents for a multi-stage rocket and liquid propellants in 1914 and published...NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, then known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, launches from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...Cassini peers around the hazy limb of the frigid moon Titan to spy the sunlit south pole of Saturn in...How can something as big as a star go undetected? The answer is dust. Stellar nursery DR21 is shrouded in...Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean climbs down the lunar module Intrepid, joining Pete Conrad on the moon, November 19, 1969.A Boeing Delta II rocket, left, fires its engines on Saturday, Nov. 20, sending NASA's Swift satellite into orbit from...Roll-out of the Progress 24 vehicle occurred on schedule at 7:00 a.m., Jan. 16, 2007 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan....Aviator Charles Lindbergh took this picture of Robert H. Goddard's rocket, as he peered down the launching tower on Sept....Astronaut Piers J. Sellers works on the shuttle's Remote Manipulator System/Orbiter Boom Sensor System during the mission's first scheduled session...Light-years in length, this cosmic tornado is actually a powerful jet cataloged as HH (Herbig-Haro) 49/50. Though such energetic outflows...As the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit began collecting images for a 360-degree panorama of new terrain, the rover captured this...Birds don't fly this high. Airplanes don't go this fast. The Statue of Liberty weighs less. No species other than...The tongue of the Malaspina Glacier, the largest glacier in Alaska, fills most of this image. The Malaspina lies west...In this September 2000 image, NEAR Shoemaker's then-current 100-kilometer (62-mile) orbit gave it a bird's eye view of the asteroid...There is no permanent human base on South Georgia Island, a British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean that lies...This 1992 image is one in a series of remarkable photos documenting the daily lives of two of Kennedy Space...About 1,600 light-years away, in a binary star system fondly known as J0806, two dense white dwarf stars orbit each..."Yes, I have been to Barsoom again ..." begins John Carter in Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1913 science fiction classic "The...The Crab Nebula is the shattered remnant of a massive star that ended its life in a supernova explosion. Nearly...On March 29, 2007, the Shiveluch Volcano on the Russian Federation's Kamchatka Peninsula erupted, sending an ash cloud skyward roughly...
