Image of the DayExpedition 38 crew member Mike Hopkins checks out the spacesuit he will wear outside the International Space Station on Saturday.Late night in the desert: Goldstone's 230-foot (70-meter) antenna tracks spacecraft day and night. This photograph was taken on Jan....This still image was taken from a new NASA movie of the sun based on data from NASA's Solar Dynamics...An Orbital Science Corporation Antares rocket is seen on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2013 as it is rolled out to launch...Saturn's moons create art on the canvas of Saturn's rings with gravity as their tool. Here Prometheus is seen sculpting...Dressed in a clean room suit, NASA photographer Desiree Stover shines a light on the Space Environment Simulator's Integration Frame...Impressive thunderclouds run along the spine of the Indonesian island of Flores, a result of ocean breezes and steep mountains.This mosaic of images from Curiosity's Mast Camera (Mastcam) shows geological members of the Yellowknife Bay formation.On Dec. 6, 1998, the crew of space shuttle mission STS-88 began construction of the International Space Station, attaching the...In the launch pad's White Room, STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., U.S. Senator from Ohio, has his flight...On Dec. 4, 1973, NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft sent back images of Jupiter of ever-increasing size. Here, images gradually build...This image of the Transantarctic Mountains was taken from the NASA P-3 airborne laboratory on Nov. 27, 2013, near the...The sunlit edge of Titan's south polar vortex stands out distinctly against the darkness of the moon's unilluminated hazy atmosphere.A study using data from Chandra and ground-based telescopes, combined with detailed theoretical models, shows that the supermassive black hole...Comet ISON is seen the lower right of this image from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory mission, captured at...This natural-light, mosaic view of the continental United States is from two nighttime images acquired early on Oct. 1, 2013,...How far away is spiral galaxy NGC 4921? Although presently estimated to be about 310 million light years distant, a...High-resolution global atmospheric modeling provides a unique tool to study the role of weather within Earth’s climate system.Astronaut James H. Newman waves during a spacewalk preparing for release of the first combined elements of the International Space...The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft launches from the Cape...At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41 a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket stands ready to...NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft launches aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V from the Cape Canaveral...A full moon rises behind the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN)...Two days before the scheduled launch, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution...This scene shows the "Murray Ridge" portion of the western rim of Endeavour Crater on Mars. The ridge is the...This MODIS image taken by NASA’s Aqua satellite on Nov. 10, 2013, shows an iceberg that was part of the...The subject of this new Hubble image, spiral galaxy NGC 6984, played host to one of these explosions back in...Nov. 8,2013 - - NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, inside a payload fairing, is hoisted to the...NASA Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg, left, Expedition 37 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, center holding the Olympic torch, and European...The Soyuz TMA-11M rocket is launched with Expedition 38 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of...This photograph by an astronaut on the International Space Station highlights the snout of the Upsala Glacier (49.88°S, 73.3°W) on...Jets generated by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies can transport huge amounts of energy across great distances.President Barack Obama presents former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut and United States Senator John Glenn with a Medal...This ghostly image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the disembodied remains of a dying star, called a planetary nebula.Can you see the profile of a wicked witch in this new infrared image of a nebula from the WISE...In this scene, which was acquired by the MESSENGER spacecraft looking from the shadows toward the sunlit side of the...A magnetic filament of solar material erupted on the sun in late September, breaking the quiet conditions in a spectacular...At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Orion ground test vehicle, or GTA, has been lifted high in the...NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, Expedition 37 flight engineer; Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin (center), commander; and European Space Agency astronaut Luca...Expedition 37 crew members aboard the International Space Station released Orbital Sciences' Cygnus spacecraft from the station's robotic arm at...
