Image of the DayIn 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...Where is the center of the Egg Nebula? Like a baby chick pecking its way out of an egg, the...Technicians continued to work on the Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft in the Soyuz Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan...The full beauty of the Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is revealed in this new, detailed view from NASA's Hubble...When the sun reflects off the surface of the ocean at the same angle that a satellite sensor is viewing...Astronauts Jim Reilly and John Olivas (visible among Reilly's helmet reflections), both STS-117 mission specialists, participate in the mission's first...Astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (top), Expedition 14 commander and NASA space station science officer, and cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, flight engineer...Concluding mission STS-115, Atlantis and her crew return to Kennedy Space Center and approach a landing before sunrise on Runway...This is one of a series of images photographed with a digital still camera featuring the different areas of the...Compared to Old World settlements like Rome and Alexandria, Egypt, Cape Cod is fairly young. Cape Cod's geology is fairly...Expedition 16 commander Peggy A. Whitson participated in the 100th spacewalk for the construction and maintenance of the International Space...Though ghostly in appearance like a hologram, aerogel is very solid and feels like hard styrofoam to the touch. Aerogel...Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter lifts off from Cape Canaveral on May 24, 1962, in his Aurora 7 capsule. The fourth...An aluminum bulkhead of the center truss segment test article for the international space station completes machining at Boeing facilities...
