Image of the DayIn this image of a dune field on Mars in a large crater near Mawrth Vallis, some of the dunes...This image—acquired by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on February 8, 2014—offers a view...An active region of the sun just rotating into the view of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory gives a profile view...This Chandra X-Ray Observatory image of the young star cluster NGC 346 highlights a heart-shaped cloud of 8 million-degree Celsius...The crawler-transporter that will carry NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B for launch on...The Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (SSOD), in the grasp of the Kibo laboratory robotic arm, is photographed by an Expedition...An Expedition 38 crew member aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of Sochi Olympic Park at night. Fisht...Solar array panels on the Russian segment of the International Space Station and a blue and white part of Earth...The 2014 Winter Olympic ski runs may be rated double black diamond, but they're not quite as steep as they...On Feb. 1, 2014, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata tweeted this view of a crescent moon rising and...On Feb. 5, 1974, NASA's Mariner 10 mission took this first close-up photo of Venus. Made using an ultraviolet filter...The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover will likely drive the rover westward over a dune and across a valley...Just as Saturn's famous hexagonal shaped jet stream encircles the planet's north pole, the rings encircle the planet, as seen...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden participates in a wreath laying ceremony as part of NASA's Day of Remembrance, Friday, Jan. 31,...On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. had a view of Earth that no American had seen before,...On Jan. 30, 2014, beginning at 8:31 a.m EST, the moon moved between NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, and...NASA Astronaut Joe Acaba moderates a panel discussion with NASA's 2013 astronaut candidates on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014.These cosmic doppelgangers make up a double quasar known as QSO 0957+561, also known as the "Twin Quasar," which lies...This photograph of cloud bands over southern Mauritania was taken from the International Space Station with an oblique angle such...A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lights up the night sky over Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral...A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-L) spacecraft on board arrives at...On Jan. 7, 2014 NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Vanuatu Archipelago, capturing this true-color image showing a broad plume...NOAA's GOES-East satellite is providing continuous coverage of the major winter storm affecting the U.S. East Coast on January 21,...Although it may look to our eyes like other images of the rings, this infrared image of Saturn's rings was...President Barack Obama has signed the resolution renaming NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center as the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research...NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, Expedition 38 flight engineer, performs in-flight maintenance on combustion research hardware in the Destiny laboratory of...This stunning false-color view spans about 40 light-years across the region, constructed using infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope....NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, or TDRS-L, spacecraft has been encapsulated in its payload fairing. It is being lifted...This astronaut photograph from the International Space Station shows Lake Sharpe, an approximately 130 kilometer (80 mile) long reservoir formed...Orbital Sciences Corp. launched its Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard its Antares rocket at 1:07 p.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014,...An Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket is seen as it launches from Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Thursday, Jan....Orbital Sciences will proceed with a 1:07 p.m. EST launch attempt of the Orbital-1 cargo resupply mission to the International...The immense gravity in Abell 2744 is being used as a lens to warp space and brighten and magnify images...An Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket is seen on launch Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Monday, Jan.6, 2014 in...This mosaic image taken on Jan. 4, 2004, by the navigation camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, shows a...Fourteen mountain peaks on Earth stand taller than 8,000 meters (26,247 feet). The tallest of these “eight-thousanders” is Mount Everest,...This image, taken on Dec. 31, 2013 by the AIA instrument on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory at 171 Angstrom, shows...Located some 25 million light-years away, this new Hubble image shows spiral galaxy ESO 373-8. Together with at least seven...On Dec. 24, 2013, NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer, participates in the second of two spacewalks, spread...As the Apollo 8 command module rounded the far side of the moon on Dec. 24, the crew could look...