Buoys used to support scientific instruments at sea are seen in the foreground prior to being loaded onboard the Woods…
This composite image shows a superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way…
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drove about 70 feet (about 21 meters) on the mission's 21st Martian day, or sol (Aug.…
The shadowy outlines of the terrain in Vesta's northern region are visible in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The…
A long filament erupted on the sun on August 31, 2012, shown here in this still captured by NASA's Solar…
A rare second full moon of the month, known as a "Blue Moon," is seen over Cincinnati on Friday, Aug.…
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) Boilerplate Test Article (BTA) vertical drop test, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. Credit: NASA/Michael Finneran
This 3-D image from NASA's Curiosity was taken from the rover's Bradbury Landing site inside Gale Crater, Mars, using the…
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) Boilerplate Test Article (BTA) vertical drop test, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. Credit: NASA/Kathy Barnstorff
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) Boilerplate Test Article (BTA) vertical drop test, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. Credit: NASA/Sandra Gibbs
