Image of the DayThis 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...This infrared image taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows a star-forming cloud teeming with gas, dust...Reflecting on his experience as he emerged from the craft into the daylight on the Expedition 24 mission's second spacewalk,...Testing advanced designs for high-speed aircraft in 1948, an engineer makes final calibrations to a model mounted in the 6...The Centaur Standard Shroud at Glenn Research Center's Space Power Facility, Plum Brook Station, protects spacecraft during launch. When it...The idea behind a communications satellite is simple: send a signal into space, and send it back down to another...A long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image shows a majestic face-on spiral galaxy located deep within the Coma Cluster of galaxies,...Astronaut Leland Melvin waved to the crowds from the NASA Glenn Research Center float during the 2010 Pro Football Hall...On August 1, 2010, almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a tumult of activity. This image...The north polar layered deposits are layers of dusty ice up to 2 miles thick and approximately 620 miles in...In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers prepare External Tank-138, hanging vertically in the...Hundreds of fires burned across western Russia on August 2, 2010, but it is the smoke that conveys the magnitude...This gimbal rig, formally known as the MASTIF, or Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility, was engineered to simulate the...NASA astronaut TJ Creamer talks about his experience in space during a "Tweetup" at NASA Headquarters, Thursday, July 29, 2010,...Perfectly circular, powerful Hurricane Celia spaned hundreds of miles over the Pacific Ocean in this image from June 24, 2010....Langley researchers have been testing the Boeing Aerodynamic Efficiency Improvement Joined Wing Wind Tunnel Model in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel....Recently, technicians at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., completed a series of cryogenic tests on six James...On Jan. 2, 2004 NASA's Stardust spacecraft made a close flyby of comet Wild 2 (pronounced "Vilt-2"). Among the equipment...President Barack Obama greets the STS-132 Atlantis crew and ISS astronaut T.J. Creamer. From left, STS-132 Commander Ken Ham; Expedition...The Orion Nebula is a 'happening' place where stars are born and this colony of hot, young stars is stirring...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Left, and Head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Anatolii Perminov turn to pose for a...The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met in...This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the floor of a large impact crater in the southern highlands, north...NASA's Swift satellite views Comet Lulin as it made it closest approach to Earth in February 2009. Lulin, like all...Children experience NASA from the inside during the annual "Take Your Children to Work Day" held each summer at NASA...One day homeowners everywhere may be protected from deadly carbon monoxide fumes, thanks to a device invented at NASA's Langley...On July 17, 1975, Cold War rivals America and the Soviet Union met in Earth orbit as American Apollo astronauts...An Aerojet AJ26 rocket engine was delivered to NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center on July 15, 2010. This is...On July 11, 2010, the new moon passed directly in front of the sun, causing a total solar eclipse in...Tycho's Supernova, the red circle visible in the upper left part of the image, is SN 1572 is a remnant...On its way to a 2014 rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, with NASA instruments aboard,...A piece of NASA history landed at the Glenn Research Center's Visitor Center, now located at the Great Lakes Science...Scientists on the sea ice in the Chukchi Sea off the north coast of Alaska disperse equipment on July 4,...Spacecraft attempting to land on an unfamiliar surface need to perform a maneuver called "deep throttling" - a step that...NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this full 360-degree view of...Like an Independence Day fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster is...Taken in 1989 by Voyager 2 during its flyby of the Neptune system, this is a global color mosaic of...Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew launched at 2:38 p.m. EDT on July 4, 2006 to begin their journey...Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes...
