Image of the DayMars rover Curiosity, the centerpiece of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, is coming together for extensive testing prior to its...There are two possible explanations for this 'slingshot' in space: kickback by a triple black hole system, or the effects...This future aircraft design concept for supersonic flight over land comes from the team led by the Lockheed Martin Corporation....The Mercury 7 astronauts examine their 'couches.' Each astronaut's couch was molded to fit his body to help withstand the...The surface of Saturn's moon Dione is rendered in crisp detail against a hazy, ghostly Titan. Visible in this image...NASA remembers Roy Estess, former Stennis Space Center Director, who passed away on June 25, 2010. Estess had a 37-year...Exhibits highlight NASA's Earth and space science portfolio, cutting-edge aeronautics research and technology development and continued leadership in human space...The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved the name Rachmaninoff for an intriguing double-ring basin on Mercury. This basin, first...The Seagull nebula, seen in this infrared mosaic from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, draws its common name...The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa spacecraft streaked across the sky like a saber of light through the clouds as...Today, our sun reaches its northernmost point in planet Earth's sky. Called a solstice, the date traditionally marks a change...The bulkhead and nosecone of the Orion spacecraft are joined using friction stir welding at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility. Nondestructive...The Soyuz TMA-19 rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, carrying Expedition 24 NASA...This image from 1967 shows the S-II stage of the Saturn V rocket as it was hoisted onto the A-2...The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Sunday, June...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden spoke with teachers and middle school students during the kick off of NASA's Summer of Innovation...This image shows the west-facing side of an impact crater in the mid-latitudes of Mars' northern hemisphere. Like many mid-latitude...In this image, engineers test the RL-10 engine in NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center's Propulsion Systems Laboratory. Developed by...In 2008, UNESCO added the Lagoons of New Caledonia to the World Heritage Site list. The Lagoons comprise six marine...Space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the STS-132 mission...This silhouette of Saturn was taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Feb. 13, 2010. Although the sun is eclipsed by...The NASA Railroad transported the last space shuttle solid rocket booster segments over the Indian River on the 13-mile trip...The X-51A successfully made the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered hypersonic flight to date off the southern California coast on May...The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineers T.J. Creamer...This composite image shows N49, the aftermath of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud. A new long observation...At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an adult osprey guards its young in a nest built on a platform...Thilo Kranz, a staff member at DLR, the German Space Agency, took this image of the transit of the International...A family of Osprey are seen outside the NASA Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on...A heavy runaway star is rushing away from a nearby stellar nursery at more than 250,000 miles an hour, a...A dozen Indonesian students gathered at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta (at left in the split-screen video monitor) had the...NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, features one of the bright stars in the constellation Perseus, named Menkhib (at...This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter covers a small portion...The constellation Vulpecula is a veritable entire assembly line of newborn stars. The diffuse glow reveals the widespread cold reservoir...On Sat., April 17, 2010, the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) instrument aboard NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) spacecraft obtained this false-color...The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is the subject of this long exposure, and is seen as it is rolled out by...This image from the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory shows the cloud associated with the Rosette Nebula, a stellar...Apollo 13 lunar module pilot Fred Haise chats with Guenter Wendt and other members of the pad closeout crew in...Astronaut Walter M. Schirra, Jr. confers with Guenter F. Wendt, McDonnell spacecraft test conductor, during simulated flight test activity in...This image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the central region of the starburst galaxy M82 and contains two bright...This artist's animation illustrates a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our...
