Image of the DayResearchers 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...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left, congratulates SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk in front of the historic Dragon capsule...The Veil Nebula, left behind by the explosion of a massive star thousands of years ago, is one of the...In this image from February 2012, technicians review their checklists after joining NASA's NuSTAR spacecraft with the Orbital Sciences Pegasus...NASA astronaut Rex Walheim participated in an evaluation of the Advanced Crew Escape Suit (ACES) in the Active Response Gravity...During a record-breaking test on June 8, 2012, engineers throttled the J-2X powerpack up and down several times to explore...Atop a barge on Wednesday, June 6, 2012, the space shuttle Enterprise was towed on the Hudson River past the...This image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows Venus as it nears the disk of the sun on June 5,...Earth's planetary neighbor Venus passes across the face of the sun on June 5, 2012, seen here from the International...Earth's planetary neighbor Venus passes across the face of the sun on June 5, 2012, seen here from the International...This image of the 2012 Venus Transit was taken by NASA Astronaut Don Pettit from aboard the International Space Station...On June 5-6 2012, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, collected images of one of the rarest predictable solar events:...On June 5-6 2012, SDO is collecting images of one of the rarest predictable solar events: the transit of Venus...It appeared that New Yorkers were not going to be able to see the transit of the planet Venus across...Enterprise, the prototype for the space shuttle fleet, arrived at the Intrepid Museum in New York City on Wednesday, June...This image of a coronal hole on the sun bears a remarkable resemblance to the 'Sesame Street' character Big Bird....This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows planetary nebula NGC 7026. Located just beyond the tip of the tail...SpaceX's Dragon capsule sits on a barge after being retrieved from the Pacific Ocean after splashdown. Dragon splashed down in...This image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as M101, combines data in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet and X-rays from...This view of European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers, Expedition 31 flight engineer, is among the first set of imagery...The SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft approaches the International Space Station on May 25, 2012 for grapple and berthing. Expedition...
