Image of the DayBill Nye, known as the Science Guy, takes a photograph of himself with NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver at the...This image shows the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy in infrared light from the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency-led...The Hubble Space Telescope captured a crowd of stars that looks rather like a stadium darkened before a show, lit...John Grunsfeld, Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, was a guest on the Colbert Report on Wednesday, Aug. 1,...More than fifty years ago, a supernova was discovered in M83, a spiral galaxy about 15 million light years from...This diagram illustrates the differences between orbits of a typical near-Earth asteroid (blue) and a potentially hazardous asteroid, or PHA...The Cassini spacecraft watches a pair of Saturn's moons, showing the hazy orb of giant Titan beyond smaller Tethys. This...The Flame Nebula sits on the eastern hip of Orion the Hunter, a constellation most easily visible in the northern...As Olympic athletes converge on London with dreams of winning gold in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, NASA is also...In this photograph from July 2008, Dr. Sally Ride, who visited Goddard Space Flight Center for a tour and speech,...This artist's conception illustrates a storm of comets around a star near our own, called Eta Corvi. Evidence for this...Researchers at JPL and Caltech have developed an instrument for exploring the cosmos and the quantum world. This new type...The space shuttle Enterprise is seen shortly after the grand opening of the Space Shuttle Pavilion at the Intrepid Sea,...The Petermann Glacier grinds and slides toward the sea along the northwestern coast of Greenland, terminating in a giant floating...The Soyuz TMA-05M rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 10:40 p.m. EDT on Saturday, July 14, 2012,...The Expedition 32 crew onboard the International Space Station, flying an altitude of approximately 240 miles, recorded a series of...NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered an extraordinary outburst by a black hole in the spiral galaxy M83, located about...The Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft is rolled out by train on its way to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome...This computer-simulated image shows gas from a star that is ripped apart by tidal forces as it falls into a...An international team of astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope made an unparalleled observation, detecting significant changes in...Researchers have obtained the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas surrounding the...Camelopardalis, or U Cam for short, is a star nearing the end of its life. As stars run low on...This image, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows the M5.3 class solar flare that peaked on July 4, 2012,...In this image from December 2008, the STS-122 mission crew members stride out of the Operations and Checkout Building, eager...Relatively few galaxies possess the sweeping, luminous spiral arms or brightly glowing center of our home galaxy the Milky Way....The Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 31 Commander Oleg Kononenko of Russia and Flight Engineers...This June 27, 2012, photo was taken of the Waldo Canyon fire from southwestern Colorado Springs, Colorado, looking northwest towards...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left, along with former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut, and United States Sen. John Glenn...In Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians sitting on the Hyster forklift monitor the progress...In both the Earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres polar mesospheric clouds are at the peak of their visibility, during their...This colorized image from NASA's Dawn mission shows temperature variations at Tarpeia Crater, near the south pole of the giant...The NASA team at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans has completed the final weld on the first space-bound...This enhanced-color image from March 2012 of a region of Mars near Nili Fossae shows part of the ejecta from...Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, attired in a training version of his spacesuit, is submerged in the...The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this view of the dwarf galaxy UGC 5497, which looks a bit like...Fifteen orbits of the recently launched Suomi NPP satellite provided the VIIRS instrument enough time (and longitude) to gather the...On June 18, 1983, a young physicist from California took her seat aboard the space shuttle and launched into history....NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver speaks during the kick off of the NASA-WPI Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge on Saturday,...Intrepid Systems Team member Mark Curry, right, answers questions from 8th grade Sullivan Middle School (Mass.) students about his robot...The Hubble Space Telescope shows a rare view of a pair of overlapping galaxies, called NGC 3314. The two galaxies...
