Image of the DayWith the placement of the test cell dome atop NASA's new A-3 Test Stand at the John C. Stennis Space...On March 29, 2011, Operation IceBridge flew between deep canyons and over glaciers along the northwest coast of Greenland. IceBridge,...Commonly known simply as the shuttle, the orbiter is both the brains and heart of NASA's Space Transportation System. Hence,...A low pressure system in the eastern North Pacific Ocean is featured in this image photographed on Mar. 20, 2011...Rho Ophiuchi might look like an abstract painting, but this splash of colors is in fact a busy star-forming complex....The Soyuz TMA-21 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, April 5, 2011, carrying Expedition 27 Soyuz Commander...As a tribute to NASA's Space Shuttle Program, artist Brian Basset created this commemorative drawing depicting his characters, Red and...Expedition 27 crew members from top, Russian Flight Engineer Andrey Borisenko, NASA Flight Engineer Ron Garan, and Soyuz Commander Alexander...The Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft is seen on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Saturday, April 2, 2011....Inside the Plasma Spray-Physical Vapor Deposition, or PS-PVD, ceramic powder is introduced into the plasma flame, which vaporizes it and...The Tien Shan mountain range is one of the largest continuous mountain ranges in the world, extending approximately 1,550 miles...At 5:20 am EDT on Mar. 29, 2011, MESSENGER captured this historic image of Mercury. This image is the first...Tassili n'Ajjer National Park, a part of the Sahara Desert, has a bone-dry climate with scant rainfall, yet does not...In honor of those affected by the Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake in Japan, Russian cosmonaut and Expedition 27 commander Dmitry Kondratyev (center),...This composite of three artists' renderings from 1975 was only wish fulfillment for an unnamed JPL artist; however, the landscape...Two new studies have put Einstein's General Theory of Relativity to the test like never before, using observations of galaxy...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left, shakes hands with Eric Finnegan, MESSENGER Mission Systems Engineer, right, as John Hopkins University Applied...A grand ringed planet, Saturn is one of the most intriguing bodies orbiting our sun. This image taken by the...On April 12, 1961, the era of human spaceflight began when the Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to...This swirling landscape of stars is known as the North America Nebula. In visible light, the region resembles North America,...The full moon is seen as it rises near the Lincoln Memorial, Saturday, March 19, 2011, in Washington. The full...On the morning of Feb. 1, 2011, WISE, or the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, took its last snapshot of the...Thousands of NASA Kennedy Space Center employees stand side-by-side to form a full-scale outline of a space shuttle orbiter outside...Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly wears a blue wrist band that has a peace symbol, a heart and the word...Launching from Earth in 2011, the Juno spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter in 2016 to study the giant planet from...A three percent scale model of a blended wing body aircraft design recently was tested in NASA Langley's 12-Foot Low-Speed...Chasma Boreale, a long, flat-floored valley, cuts deep into Mars' north polar icecap. Its walls rise about 4,600 feet, or...These images show the effects of the tsunami on Japan's coastline. The image on the left was taken on Sept....NASA's Terra satellite's first view of northeastern Japan in the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami reveal extensive flooding...At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery's STS-133 pose for a photo on the Shuttle Landing Facility...NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has constructed the first portrait of our solar system by combining 34 images taken by the spacecraft's...The Hubble Space Telescope revealed this majestic disk of stars and dust lanes in this view of the spiral galaxy...This image shows part of the floor of Rabe Crater, a large impact crater in Mars' southern highlands. Dark dunes-accumulations...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden responds to a reporter's question during an overview briefing on NASA's fiscal year 2012 budget, Monday,...Just in time for Valentine's Day comes a new image of a ring - not of jewels - but of...Nebulae are enormous clouds of dust and gas occupying the space between the stars. Some have pretty names to match...Dextre, the Canadian Space Agency's robotic "handyman", is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 26 crew member aboard...Students from Ferebee-Hope Elementary School in Washington, D.C., take turns trying on a glove from a space suit on Tuesday,...NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden (left) and Stennis Space Center Director Patrick Scheuermann view a test firing of the first Aerojet...This oddly colorful nebula is the supernova remnant IC 443 as seen by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE....
