On July 23, 2012, a massive cloud of solar material erupted off the sun's right side, zooming out into space,…
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has obtained its first observations of the Red Planet's extended upper atmosphere.
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (left), Expedition 43/44 flight engineer and Expedition 45/46 commander; and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, Expedition 43-46…
European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, Expedition 41 flight engineer, uses a still camera at a window in the Cupola…
On Sept. 19, 2014, the Landsat 8 satellite captured this false color image of the King fire in Eldorado National…
Telescopes and instruments for NASA's Balloon Observation Platform for Planetary Science (BOPPS) are calibrated by taking a long look at…
A Neptune-size planet with a clear atmosphere is shown crossing in front of its star in this artist's depiction. Such…
The image is a mosaic of "postage stamp" regions taken during the engineering test run this spring by NASA's Kepler…
SPHERES Batteries going through early test in a vacuum
Geotail is a joint mission of NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). After completing its primary mission, studying…