Image of the DayLike most moons in the solar system, Tethys is covered by impact craters. Some craters bear witness to incredibly violent...ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti checks her Sokol pressure suit in preparation for the Expedition 43 crew's departure from the International...The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this closeup image of a "fresh" (on a geological scale, though...This photograph of the Florida Straits and Grand Bahama Bank was taken during the Gemini IV mission during orbit no....For 50 years, NASA has been "suiting up" for spacewalking. In this Feb. 7, 1984 photograph of the first untethered...Surveyor 1, the first of the Surveyor missions to make a successful soft landing, proved the validity of the spacecraft's...The second flight test of NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) will be attempted on Tuesday, June 2, launching a rocket-powered,...This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents the Arches Cluster, the densest known star cluster in the Milky Way.This parachute testing for NASA's InSight mission to Mars was conducted inside the world's largest wind tunnel, at NASA Ames...NASA pilot Jim Less and photographer Jim Ross pull their F-15D #897 aircraft away from a KC-135 refueling tanker. NASA...This 12-frame mosaic provides the highest resolution view ever obtained of the side of Jupiter's moon Europa that faces the...The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory images the solar atmosphere in multiple wavelengths to link...Equipment and data from the SpinSat investigation returns to Earth today, May 21, 2015, with splashdown of the sixth SpaceX...This image, acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, shows Hubbard Glacier on July 22, 2014.Supporting the testing of electric propulsion and power systems, VF-5 has the highest pumping speed of any electric propulsion test...On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens gave way to a cataclysmic flank collapse, avalanche, and explosion that killed 57...NASA astronauts Scott Kelly (left) and Terry Virts (right) work on a Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) inside the station's...A NASA F-15D flies chase for the G-III Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE) project. The ACTE experimental flight research project...On May 13, 1992, following the successful capture of the Intelsat VI satellite, three astronauts continue moving the 4.5 ton...From the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Terry Virts took this photograph of an early morning sunrise over the Grand...From a distance Saturn seems to exude an aura of serenity and peace.Earth’s cloudy nature is unmistakable in this global cloud fraction map, based on data collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging...Engineers are using carbon dioxide snow to clean James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors without scratching them.NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured these images of a significant solar flare – as seen...Fifty-four years ago on May 5, 1961 only 23 days after Yuri Gagarin of the then-Soviet Union became the first...The great eye of Saturn's moon Mimas, a 130-kilometer-wide (80-mile) impact crater called Herschel, stares out from the battered moon....A team at NASA's Langley Research Center is developing a concept of a battery-powered plane that has 10 engines and...On April 30th, this region of Mercury's surface will have a new crater! Traveling at 3.91 kilometers per second (over...On April 29, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery approaches for landing on a concrete runway at Edwards Air Force Base...NASA astronaut Scott Kelly delivers remarks from onboard the International Space Station during the Space Shuttle Enterprise dedication ceremony Monday,...To learn more about the minerals and surface processes on Mercury, instruments aboard NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft have been collecting surface...In this April 25, 1990, photograph taken by the crew of the STS-31 space shuttle mission, the Hubble Space Telescope...The brilliant tapestry of young stars flaring to life resemble a glittering fireworks display in the 25th anniversary NASA Hubble...In this photo taken from a chase plane, the Boeing ecoDemonstrator 757 flight test airplane --with NASA's Active Flow Control...This composite image of southern Africa and the surrounding oceans was captured by six orbits of the NASA/NOAA Suomi National...NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, currently on a one-year mission on the International Space Station, posted this image of the successful...In this Chandra image of ngc6388, researchers have found evidence that a white dwarf star may have ripped apart a...The X-56A Multi-Utility Technology Testbed (MUTT) is greeted on an Edwards Air Force Base runway by a U.S. Air Force..."Honoring #JackieRobinson today! #42" wrote NASA astronaut Terry Virts from the cupola of the International Space Station.A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the...
