Image of the DayEvidence from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan telescopes suggest a star was torn apart by an intermediate-mass black...This image of a cluster of rocks labeled 'Rock Garden' is where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became embedded in...Wishing all a joyful new year, members of the Cassini-Huygens team offer us their views of Saturn and the Cassini...This astronaut photograph shows the Calabria region of southern Italy-the toe of Italy's "boot"-outlined by the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Seas...Saturn, stately and resplendent in this natural color view, dwarfs its icy moon Rhea. Rhea (949 miles in diameter) orbits...Like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, Hubble caught this glimpse of many hundreds of thousands...Wishing all the happiest of holidays, members of the Cassini-Huygens team offer their views of Saturn and its moons as...Tens of thousands of people living within the danger zone of Mayon Volcano in the Philippines were forced to evacuate...NASA flies three large, multi-sensor satellites that monitor Earth's land, atmosphere, oceans and energy balance. Because the instruments on each...The Soyuz TMA-17 rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:52 p.m. EST on Sunday, Dec. 20, carrying...The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Friday, Dec....As interest in Earth's changing climate heats up, a tiny dark particle is stepping into the limelight: black carbon. Commonly...This Global Digital Elevation Model, or GDEM, is a product of the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER),...NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket at 9:09 a.m. EST...NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket at 9:09 a.m. EST...A scaffolding structure built around NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, allows engineers to freeze its hydrogen coolant. The...An F/A-18 mission support aircraft shadows NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, 747SP during a functional check flight...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden speaks during a luncheon co-hosted by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Women...NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took this picture of a rock informally named 'Marquette Island' as it approached the rock...During its mission, the Galileo spacecraft returned a number of images of Earth's only natural satellite. Galileo surveyed the moon...This view from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is of the Proctor...The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of valleys west of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, so named because of their extremely...Surrounded by the blackness of space, this profile view of the space shuttle Atlantis was photographed by the Expedition 21...At a 1 p.m. ceremony on Dec 2, 2009, Administrator Charles Bolden presented NASA's Ambassador of Exploration Award to Apollo...Sitting majestically atop a utility pole at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a bald eagle is king of all...This artist's concept illustrates the two types of spiral galaxies that populate our universe: those with plump middles, or central...This view from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows tracks left by backing out of a...The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most...The Cassini spacecraft has weathered the Monday, Nov. 2, 2009, flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus in good health and has...Residents of Palmer Station, Antarctica, used their bright red United States Antarctic Program parkas to send ground-to-air greeting to scientists...The Cassini spacecraft has weathered the Monday, Nov. 2, 2009, flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus in good health and has...At Stennis Space Center, three large engine test stands were built the early 1960s to test the first and second...Off the east coast of New Zealand, cold rivers of water that have branched off from the Antarctic Circumpolar Current...One of NASA's three X-38 Crew Return Vehicle technology demonstrators that flew at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards...An iceberg is seen out the window of NASA's DC-8 research aircraft as it flies 2,000 feet above the Amundsen...This view from the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the terrain surrounding the location called "Troy,"...The International Space Station's Expedition 1 crew took a break from training in the systems integration facility at the Johnson...The Cassini team sends "bats wishes" for a happy, healthy and fun Halloween. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project...The seven crew members in training for the STS-95 mission aboard Discovery pose for photographers prior to participating in a...Mission managers watch as NASA's Ares I-X rocket launches from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape...
