Image of the DayNASA senior managers completed a detailed review of space shuttle Discovery's readiness for flight and selected Oct. 23, 2007, as...Two decades ago, astronomers spotted one of the brightest exploding stars in more than 400 years. Since that first sighting,...JPL leads in the development of the ATHLETE (All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer) robotic vehicle. Other members of the team include...The Spirit rover attacked Mars again in September 2005. However, what might look like a military attack was once again...While on final approach for its September 2007 close encounter with Saturn's moon Iapetus, Cassini spun around to take in...On Tuesday, Jan. 6, 1998, at 9:28 p.m. EST, NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft climbed into the sky above Cape Canaveral...Variable star V838 Monocerotis lies near the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, about 20,000 light-years from our sun. Still,...As Spirit descended onto Mars' surface on Jan. 3, it performed a series of entry, descent and landing actions, leaving...This false-color image captured by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows Cape St. Vincent, one of the many promontories that...This psychedelic view of Saturn and its rings is a composite made from images taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle...On Mar. 16, 1926, Dr. Robert H. Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Mass., laying the foundation...STS-114 astronaut Soichi Noguchi waves from the Shuttle payload bay, backdropped by the Earth below. During the mission's second spacewalk,...A Delta II rocket lit up the early morning sky over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida as it...A camera on the International Space Station captured this image of the docked Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay. There is...NASA engineer and test pilot Bruce Peterson (right) discusses the M2-F2 Lifting Body airplane with actor James Doohan, who played...The Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco formed as a result of the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates about...This photo by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls has been honored by United Press International as one of the top pictures...Dust makes this cosmic eye look red. This eerie Spitzer Space Telescope image shows infrared radiation from the well-studied Helix...This delightfully detailed false color image of Saturn is a combination of three images taken in January 1998 by the...The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) gets a high-speed workout by astronaut John W. Young in the "Grand Prix" run during...STS-116 Commander Mark Polansky (center) says a few words for the media following the landing of Discovery at the Kennedy...The equinox is an astronomical event that marks the first day of autumn in the northern hemisphere and spring in...Expedition 16 commander Peggy Whitson, Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko and spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor blasted off from the Baikonur...Dark and sharply defined ring shadows appear to constrict the flow of color from Saturn's warmly hued south to the...The crew of STS-85 used a 35mm camera with a time exposure to record this image of the southern lights...In Firing Room 4 of the Launch Control Center, employees wave American flags after the successful launch of Space Shuttle...This 1964 photograph shows NASA Pilot Joe Walker in the pilot's platform of the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) number...On July 1, 1976, President Gerald Ford attended the opening ceremony for the National Air and Space Museum. During the...One of the final "dry runs" found the Expedition 1 crew members training for their upcoming mission, about a week-and-half...The same weather system that brought snow and ice to the American Midwest just after Thanksgiving 2005 also kicked up...The image above reveals sharp boundaries between dark and light regions on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. The photo,...This composite image shows Z Camelopardalis, or Z Cam, a double-star system. The Z Cam system features a collapsed, dead...Images from the Hubble space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory combine to make this composite of N49,...Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth's horizon, the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Atlantis move farther apart...This stunning false-color view of Saturn's moon Hyperion reveals crisp details across the strange, tumbling moon's surface. Differences in color...Discovery's cargo bay over Earth's horizon was photographed by one of the seven STS-114 crew members as the Shuttle approached...A 310-mile (500km) shadow falls over Antarctica during a total solar eclipse on November 23, 2003, in this photo from...This image mosaic taken by the panoramic camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the rover's landing site, the...Space shuttle Discovery leaps from its launch pad on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007, to begin the STS-120 mission to the...A close-up view of Discovery's tail section is featured in this image that was taken during a backflip maneuver as...
