Image of the DayIn December 2009, the first high-resolution global map of Mercury was made publicly available. These images are from MESSENGER, a...Dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed 'tiger stripes' near the...On March 13, 2008, the International Space Station passed across the field-of-view of Germany's remote sensing satellite, TerraSAR-X, at a...This mosaic of images from the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explore, or WISE, in the constellation of Cassiopeia contains a large...In 2005 the robotic Huygens probe landed on Titan, Saturn's enigmatic moon, and sent back the first ever images from...This is a composite image of NGC 1068, one of the nearest and brightest galaxies containing a rapidly growing supermassive...The edge of the Larsen Ice Shelf meets open water and sea ice, viewed from above during the 20th Ice...An oblong iceberg roughly as big as Rhode Island called B-09B (center right in this image) collided with the edge...The National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, or NACA, which celebrates its 95th anniversary on March 3, provided the nation's earliest...The Crab Nebula, the result of a supernova noted by Earth-bound chroniclers in 1054 A.D., is filled with mysterious filaments...Haze lingered over the metropolitan area of Santiago, Chile, following a magnitude 8.8 earthquake on February 27, 2010. In an...NASA's Space Shuttle Program conducted the final test firing of a reusable solid rocket motor Feb. 25 in Promontory, Utah....Several of the dwarf galaxies in the Hickson Compact Group 31 are slowly merging. Will the result of these galactic...President Barack Obama speaks by phone with the crew currently aboard the International Space Station. President Obama was accompanied by...In a very unique setting over Earth's colorful horizon, the silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour is featured in this...NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, SDO, launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V from Space Launch Complex-41 at 10:23 a.m....In the mobile service tower at Launch Complex 37 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Fla., a solid rocket...This infrared portrait of the Small Magellanic Cloud, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, reveals stars and dust in this...Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have found a likely solution to a centuries-old riddle of the night sky. Every...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden spoke during a press conference, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, at the National Press Club in Washington,...This composite color infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars...The 51st entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog is perhaps the original spiral nebula-a large galaxy with a well defined...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden participates in a wreath laying ceremony as part of NASA's Day of Remembrance, Friday, Jan. 29,...Though they are the largest and most widely scattered objects in the universe, galaxies do go bump in the night....Members of the STS-129 shuttle mission present a specially minted silver medallion to National Football League officials on Wednesday, Jan....The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft captured this false-color image of Haiti...This view from the navigation camera near the top of the mast on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the...Expedition 22 flight engineer Oleg Kotov used a digital still camera to take this self-portrait during a January 2010 spacewalk....Two spectacular tails of X-ray emission have been seen trailing behind a galaxy using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. A composite...Dunes of sand-sized materials have been trapped on the floors of many Martian craters. This is one example, from a...With its suite of science instruments, Juno will investigate the existence of a solid planetary core, map Jupiter's intense magnetic...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, and award-winning writer-director James Cameron, meet at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC on Tuesday, Jan....In Orbiter Processing Facility-3 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, members of the STS-130 crew view a demonstration on...Galaxies throughout the universe are ablaze with star birth. But for a nearby, small spiral galaxy, the star-making party is...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, the STS-129 space shuttle crew and members of the Congressional Black Caucus pose for a group...NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast...Martian landforms have been shaped by winds, water, lava flow, seasonal icing and other forces over millennia. This view shows...Looking for all the world like a snowflake, this is actually a close up view of sodium chloride crystals. The...On Jan. 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei's improvements to the telescope enabled humanity to see Jupiter's four largest moons for the...More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic, full-color view of thousands of galaxies. This...
