Image of the DayThis artist's concept of the Orion Service Module was introduced today. When the Orion spacecraft blasts off atop NASA's Space...Residents of Beijing and many other cities in China were warned to stay inside in mid-January 2013 as the nation...ISS034-E-016601 (4 Jan. 2013) -- On Jan. 4 a large presence of stratocumulus clouds was the central focus of camera...This new view of spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5, includes data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope...The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-K) spacecraft is part of the next-generation series in the Tracking and Data Relay...This new view of the historical supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, located 11,000 light-years away, was taken by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic...This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows the patch of rock cleaned...In the International Space Station's Destiny laboratory, Robonaut 2 is pictured on Jan. 2, during a round of testing for...A solar eruption gracefully rose up from the sun on Dec. 31, 2012, twisting and turning. Magnetic forces drove the...Snow-covered deserts are rare, but that's exactly what the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite observed as...After more than a month of eruption, lava continues to flow from Tolbachik, one of many active volcanoes on Russia's...The Hubble Space Telescope captured a spectacular image of the bright star-forming ring that surrounds the heart of the barred...The spiral galaxy NGC 3627 is located about 30 million light years from Earth. This composite image includes X-ray data...On the 84th and 85th Martian days of the NASA Mars rover Curiosity's mission on Mars (Oct. 31 and Nov....While the Dawn spacecraft is visiting the asteroids Vesta and Ceres, NASA Glenn has been developing the next generation of...Three 300-pound main parachutes gently lower a mockup Orion capsule to the ground during a test at the U.S. Army...'Tis the season for holiday decorating and tree-trimming. Not to be left out, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have...The Soyuz TMA-07M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 19, 2012 carrying Expedition 34 NASA Flight...Expedition 34 Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), top, NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn and Soyuz...Technicians prepare to fit a special fixture around an Orion capsule inside the high bay of the Operations & Checkout...The Soyuz rocket is rolled out to the launch pad by train on Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, at the Baikonur...On Dec. 14, 1962, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft sailed close to the shrouded planet Venus, marking the first time any...Stars are sometimes born in the midst of chaos. About 3 million years ago in the nearby galaxy M33, a...At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 34 Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA conducts a "fit check" dress rehearsal...The Helios-A solar probe launched on Dec. 10, 1974 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. As it looped around...The huge, 363-feet tall Apollo 17 (Spacecraft 114/Lunar Module 12/Saturn 512) space vehicle is launched from Pad A., Launch Complex...This image shows the variations in the lunar gravity field as measured by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)...This combined image from Nov. 8-9, 2012, shows the sun's innermost atmosphere as seen by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)...This new global view of Earth's city lights is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting...This still image of Super Typhoon Bopha was taken by Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford on Sunday, Dec. 2 from...Tethys may not be tiny by normal standards, but when it is captured alongside Saturn, it can't help but seem...NASA's Space Launch System buffet model in NASA's Langley Researcher Center's Transonic Dynamics Tunnel.The Sun erupted with two prominence eruptions, one after the other over a four-hour period (Nov. 16, 2012). The action...NASA's Terra satellite passed over the South Atlantic Ocean on Nov. 15, 2012, allowing the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument...A J-2X power pack assembly burns brightly during a hot fire test Nov. 27 at NASA's Stennis Space Center in...Workers at the Propulsion Systems Laboratory at Lewis Research Center, now John H. Glenn Research Center, develop the Centaur upper...NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, Expedition 25 flight engineer, is pictured in the Cupola of the International Space Station on Oct....The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the spiral galaxy ESO 499-G37, seen here against a backdrop of distant galaxies, scattered...Planck has discovered a bridge of hot gas that connects galaxy clusters Abell 399 (lower center) and Abell 401 (top...The sun erupted with two prominence eruptions, one after the other over a four-hour period on Nov. 16, 2012. The...
