Image of the DayPresident Barack Obama signs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010 in the Oval Office, Monday, Oct....The Soyuz TMA-01M rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 carrying Expedition 25 Soyuz...The Soyuz TMA-01M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:10 p.m. EDT on Thursday, October 7, 2010...The nose of an inflatable half-scale model of a NASA F/A-18 in front of the NASA Aeronautics exhibit points skyward...The Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Oct....Scientists have yet to discover what caused the strange spiral structure. Nor do they know why it glows. The glow...History changed on Oct. 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I, the world's first artificial satellite. About...NASA's first administrator T. Keith Glennan shows then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Chairman of the Senate's Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee,...A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories.This image from testing of ChemCam shows a ball of luminous plasma erupting from the surface of an iron pyrite...This photograph shows the Laser Ranging Facility at the Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in...Lightning lights up the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida during thunderstorms on Monday, Sept. 27,...The Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 24 Commander Alexander Skvortsov and Flight Engineers Tracy Caldwell...The Global Hawk is a robotic plane that can fly autonomously to altitudes above 60,000 feet - twice as high...The Expedition 24 crew aboard the International Space Station photographed the Twitchell Canyon Fire in central Utah on Sept. 20....In preparation for its last planned mission to the International Space Station, shuttle Discovery was lowered onto its external fuel...In the cold vacuum of space, radiation from massive stars carves away at cold molecular clouds, creating bizarre, fantasy-like structures....A last quarter crescent moon above Earth's horizon is featured in this image photographed by the Expedition 24 crew on...This high forward oblique view of Rima Ariadaeus on the moon was photographed by the Apollo 10 crew in May...Located about 5,000 light years from Earth, this composite image shows the Rosette star formation region.Giant planet GJ 436b in the constellation Leo is missing something-and that something is swamp gas. To the surprise of...NASA's Desert RATS, or Research and Technology Studies, team made its 13th trip to the desert for another round of...Dr. Werhner von Braun, Marshall Space Flight Center's first director, points out a detail regarding the first stage of the...As if surrounded by a celestial halo, space shuttle Discovery made its way towards the expansive confines of NASA Kennedy...Filled with trash and discarded items, the unpiloted ISS Progress 38 supply vehicle departed from the International Space Station at...This image from the GOES-13 satellite, taken at 10:32 a.m. EDT on Sept. 3, 2010, shows a huge Hurricane Earl...The Fourmile Canyon Fire continued to burn west of Boulder, Colo., in this image taken on Sept. 7, 2010, casting...The sands of time are running out for the central star of this the Hourglass Nebula. With its nuclear fuel...The Expedition 24 crew on the International Space Station photographed this image of polar mesospheric clouds illuminated by an orbital...Backdropped by red hills, the Development Motor-2, or DM-2, ignites during an Aug. 31, 2010, static test that was conducted...The current Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite GOES-13 captured this image of Hurricane Danielle heading for the north Atlantic (top center),...Spiral galaxy NGC 4921 presently is estimated to be 320 million light years distant. This image, taken by the Hubble...Making the stuff of science fiction into reality, NASA engineers are testing solar sails-a unique propulsion technology that one day...Is this one galaxy or two? Astronomer Art Hoag first asked this question when he chanced upon this unusual extragalactic...The picturesque, but snow-capped volcanoes, composing the Islands of the Four Mountains in Alaska's Aleutian Island chain look suspiciously like...Cloudless skies allowed a clear view of dust and hydrogen sulfide plumes along the coast of Namibia in early August...This image from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the floor of the moon's Anaxagoras crater, including a portion of the...Two extremely bright stars illuminate a greenish mist in this image from the Spitzer Space Telescope's "GLIMPSE360" survey. This mist...This image shows the eruption of a galactic "super-volcano" in the massive galaxy M87, as witnessed by NASA's Chandra X-ray...Researchers do not yet know what is lighting up IRAS 05437+2502, a small, faint nebula that spans only 1/18th of...
