Image of the DayApollo 11 astronauts, from left, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stand in recognition of astronaut John Glenn during...This striking NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, which shows what looks like the profile of a celestial bird, belies the...On most days, relentless rivers of clouds wash over Alaska, obscuring most of the state's 6,640 miles (10,690 kilometers) of...President Barack Obama chats with Apollo 11 astronauts, from left, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong, Monday, July 20,...On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger...A view of Earth as seen from the Cupola on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station. Visible in...This image of Mercury, acquired by the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) aboard NASA's MESSENGER mission on April 23, 2013,...Two or three times a year, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory observes the moon traveling across the sun, blocking its view....Orbital Sciences team members move the second half of the payload fairing before it is placed over NASA's IRIS (Interface...John Wargo, lead technician at NASA Glenn's Propulsion System Laboratory (PSL) is performing an inspection on the inlet ducting, upstream...Inside the Cupola, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, an Expedition 36 flight engineer, uses a 400mm lens on a digital still...The bright clusters and nebulae of planet Earth's night sky are often named for flowers or insects. Though its wingspan...A NASA Black Brant XII suborbital rocket streaks into the night sky following its launch at 11:05 p.m. EDT on...On May 20, 2013, central Oklahoma was devastated by a EF-5 tornado, the most severe on the enhanced Fujita scale....This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures an ongoing cosmic collision between two galaxies.The sun is captured in a "starburst" mode over Earth's horizon by one of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard...This image, taken on March 4, 1969, shows the stacking of the S-II stage for the Saturn 506 in the...The ISS SERVIR Environmental Research and Visualization System or ISERV - a camera aboard the International Space Station - captures...This artist's rendering shows what capturing an asteroid could look like. NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically...A Soyuz rocket with Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineers...An aircraft-shaped wind vane is seen in the foreground of this image of the Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome...The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft is rolled out by train to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad, Sunday, May 26, 2013, in...This image shows a cutting-edge solar-electric propulsion thruster in development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., that uses xenon...Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) photographed this striking view of Pavlof Volcano on May 18, 2013. The oblique...In Antarctica in January, 2013 – the summer at the South Pole – scientists released 20 balloons, each eight stories...This image of the storm system that generated the F-4 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma was taken by NASA's Moderate Resolution...The Twin Rectangular Jet model, installed on the Nozzle Acoustic Test Rig in the Aeroacoustic Propulsion Laboratory at NASA's Glenn...NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its front left Hazard-Avoidance Camera for this image of the rover's arm over the drilling...Expedition 35 Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy, who currently is living and working aboard the International Space Station, is captured in...This composite image of a galaxy illustrates how the intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to...The Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency...Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), left, Russian Flight Engineer Roman Romanenko of the Russian...Expedition 35 Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy (pictured) and Tom Marshburn (out of frame) completed a spacewalk at 2:14 p.m. EDT...NASA's new Earth-bound rover began testing on the Greenland ice sheet this week. GROVER, which stands for both Greenland Rover...The sun is about to come up over the South Pacific Ocean in this colorful scene photographed by one of...Red and white vapor clouds filled the skies over the Marshall Islands as part of NASA's Equatorial Vortex Experiment (EVEX)....Astronaut Don Pettit watches as a technician works on the Orion crew module inside the Operations and Checkout Building high...The LAGEOS I, Laser Geodynamics Satellite, was launched on May 4, 1976 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The two-foot...These images of Earth were reconstructed from photos taken by three smartphones in orbit, or "PhoneSats." The trio of PhoneSats...Like a proud peacock displaying its tail, Enceladus shows off its beautiful plume to the Cassini spacecraft's cameras. Enceladus (313...
