Image of the DayChandra has detected more than 14,000 stars in the Carina Nebula, a star-forming region in the Sagittarius-Carina arm of the...This image of galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2-0847 (or MACS 1206 for short) is part of a broad survey with NASA's...On Oct. 11, 2011, NASA officially transferred title and ownership of space shuttle Endeavour to the California Science Center during...Looking like a pair of eyeglasses only a rock star would wear, this nebula brings into focus a murky region...This NASA Hubble Space Telescope infrared mosaic image represents the sharpest survey of the Galactic Center to date. It reveals...Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Captain Mark Kelly during his retirement ceremony in the Secretary of War Suite...This composite image, created using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope, shows the molecular cloud...On Oct. 4, 1957, Sputnik 1 successfully launched and entered Earth's orbit. Thus, began the space age. The successful launch...CAFE Foundation Hanger Boss Mike Fenn waves the speed competition checkered flag for the e-Genius aircraft during the 2011 Green...Gene Kranz (foreground, back to camera), an Apollo 13 Flight Director, watches Apollo 13 astronaut and lunar module pilot Fred...This image is from a 2008 cold flow test campaign conducted at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center for the J-2X...NGC 281 is known informally as the "Pacman Nebula" because of its appearance in optical images.This infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, showcases the Tadpole Nebula, a star-forming hub in the...This artist's concept shows a glowing patch of ultraviolet light near Saturn's north pole that occurs at the "footprint" of...Photographed by the Expedition 28 crew aboard the International Space Station, this image shows the moon, the Earth's only natural...Work on the heat shield and thermal protection backshell of the Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle ground test article, or GTA,...The Orion ground test vehicle is lifted into the acoustic chamber at Lockheed Martin's facilities near Denver on Thursday, Sept....A quintet of Saturn's moons come together in the Cassini spacecraft's field of view for this portrait. Janus (179 kilometers,...In this image taken in 1944, one of Langley Research Center's Sikorsky YR-4B/HNS-1 helicopters is seen in the 30 x...Using a digital still camera, the International Space Station Expedition 3 crew captured a setting sun and the thin blue...The Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 28 Commander Andrey Borisenko, and Flight Engineers Ron Garan,...The Herschel Infrared Space Observatory discovered that galaxies do not always need to collide with each other to drive vigorous...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, presents the National Security and International Affairs Medal to Michael Duncan, former deputy chief medical...The evening skies over the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. burst into life in celebration of the...The bright sun, a portion of the International Space Station and Earth's horizon are featured in this image photographed during...Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers are witnessing the unprecedented transition of a supernova to a supernova remnant, where light...Fire and smoke light up a blue sky as a United Launch Alliance Delta II Heavy rocket propels NASA's Gravity...Construction on the first space-bound Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Module began with the first weld at the Michoud Assembly Facility on...NASA's Viking Project found a place in history when it became the first U.S. mission to land a spacecraft successfully...The Earth's moon has been an endless source of fascination for humanity for thousands of years. When at last Apollo...At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 17B in Florida, these spacecraft technicians may be the last persons...NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take this picture showing a light-toned rock, nicknamed Tisdale 2,...Katia was a tropical storm gathering energy over the Atlantic Ocean when one of the Expedition 28 crew took this...NASA Langley's Bell UH-1H Huey helicopter returned to the Center Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011, after a five-year long stint supporting...This GOES-13 satellite image is of Hurricane Irene just 28 minutes before the storm made landfall in New York City....Space shuttle Challenger's third flight was the first to have its beginnings in darkness, as NASA's eighth space shuttle launch...Technicians position microphones around the Orion MPCV, or Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, and LAS, or Launch Abort System, test craft in...Arp 274, also known as NGC 5679, is a system of three galaxies that appear to be partially overlapping in...This computer-generated images depicts part of Mars at the boundary between darkness and daylight, with an area including Gale Crater,...High above the Earth from aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Ron Garan snapped this image of Hurricane Irene as...
