
Engineers using a state-of-the-art vertical welding tool at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., move a "pathfinder" version…

NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory passes Antarctica's tallest peak, Mount Vinson, on Oct. 22, 2012, during a flight over the continent…

ISS033-E-012794 (18 Oct. 2012) -- NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Expedition 33 commander, uses a vacuum cleaner during housekeeping operations in…

This image of a solar flare on Oct 22, 2012, combines the light from two different wavelengths as captured by…

Artist's depiction of the four Cluster spacecraft in Earth's magnetic field.

Expedition 33/34 crew members, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, bottom, Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA, and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin…

These are the first, focused high-energy X-ray views of the area surrounding the supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A*, at…

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has captured these first, focused views of the supermassive black hole at the…

The Soyuz rocket is rolled out to the launch pad by train, on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, at the Baikonur…

The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 2:14 p.m. EDT on Oct. 20, 2012 NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory…