Image of the DaySeen from the International Space Station, the Soyuz TMA-05M descent module begins to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere, leaving a plasma...The Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft is seen shortly after it landed with Expedition 33 Commander Sunita Williams of NASA and Japanese...These images of the planetary nebula Abell 30 show one of the clearest views ever obtained of a special phase...Supernova remnant W44 is the focus of this new image created by combining data from the European Space Agency's Herschel...High-resolution global atmospheric modeling run on the Discover supercomputer at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation at Goddard Space Flight...View of Sheldon Glacier with Mount Barre in the background, seen from Ryder Bay near Rothera Research Station, Adelaide Island,...It looks like even the craters on Mercury have heard of Bob Ross! The central peaks of this complex crater...The Milky Way and other galaxies in the universe harbor many young star clusters and associations that each contain hundreds...The Boeing X-48 Blended Wing Body subscale research aircraft made its 100th flight in late October at NASA's Dryden Flight...The American flag patch pictured here is from the left arm on Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 suit. This image was...Members of the IceBridge team visited a colony of Magellanic penguins near Punta Arenas on a no-flight day. NASA's Operation...On Nov. 2, 2012, Bill Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev made history by becoming the first crew to live...This image shows a "bite mark" where NASA's Curiosity rover scooped up some Martian soil. The first scoop sample was...Described as a "dusty curtain" or "ghostly apparition," mysterious reflection nebula VdB 152 really is very faint. Far from your...On Oct. 26, 2012, NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, Expedition 33 flight engineer, smiles for a photo while holding a still...A Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 3:22 p.m. EDT Sunday, Oct. 28,...Early in the morning on Oct. 25, 2012, the Suomi NPP satellite passed over Hurricane Sandy after it made landfall...NASA's Cassini spacecraft has tracked the aftermath of a rare massive storm on Saturn. Data reveal record-setting disturbances in the...NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory passes Antarctica's tallest peak, Mount Vinson, on Oct. 22, 2012, during a flight over the continent...Expedition 33/34 crew members, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, bottom, Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA, and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin...The Soyuz rocket is rolled out to the launch pad by train, on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, at the Baikonur...The MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this visible image of Sea Ice off eastern Greenland on October 16,...At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Expedition 33 crew share a playful moment Oct. 10, 2012 during the first...If human beings are ever to fly faster than the speed of sound from one side of the country to...Ok, so maybe it's just me. But the superposition of younger craters on older craters (in this case two smaller...Cable technicians raise their cherry pickers to watch and photograph the space shuttle Endeavour as it is maneuvered through the...The space shuttle Endeavour is seen atop the Over Land Transporter (OLT) after exiting the Los Angeles International Airport on...Mariner 2 was the world's first successful interplanetary spacecraft. Launched Aug. 27, 1962, on an Atlas-Agena rocket, Mariner 2 passed...Thor-Able I with the Pioneer I spacecraft atop, prior to launch at Eastern Test Range at what is now Kennedy...Five years ago today, on Oct. 10, 2007, U.S. astronaut Peggy A. Whitson, the first woman to command the International...This image from the right Mast Camera (Mastcam) of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows a scoop full of sand and...Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida is illuminated by a Falcon 9 rocket as...Technicians attach the Dragon capsule to a Falcon 9 rocket at the SpaceX facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,...A dying star is throwing a cosmic tantrum in this combined image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy...Technicians and scientists check out one of the Webb telescope's first two flight mirrors on Sept. 19, 2012 in the...NASA's Mars rover Curiosity held its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera about 10.5 inches (27 centimeters) away from the...Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares rocket rolls out to the launch pad at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on the morning of...NASA astronaut Kevin Ford (left), Expedition 33 flight engineer and Expedition 34 commander; Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy (center) and Flight...This full view of the giant asteroid Vesta was taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, launched Sept. 27, 2007, as part...This image captures a perspective of NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft from one of the wings. The Global Hawk is...
