Just before Rhea slipped behind Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft captured the moon in its disappearing act. Along with the partly…
What's the world's most complex space robot doing up there? In June 2008, Dextre was moved atop the Destiny Laboratory…
Officially known as 1E 0657-56, the Bullet Cluster was formed after the violent collision of two large clusters of galaxies.…
Most ISS images are nadir, in which the center point of the image is directly beneath the lens of the…
As the name implies, this reflection nebula associated with the star Rigel looks suspiciously like a fairytale crone. Formally known…
As the new Equinox mission at Saturn begins, the Cassini-Huygens mission team sends their best wishes for a happy, healthy…
Langley researcher Elton W. Miller stands poised in the Propeller Research Tunnel, as if pondering the future of aviation in…
Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of six glided onto Runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center after spending nine…
Astronaut Alan Shepard is hurled into space atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket. Freedom 7 was the first American manned suborbital space…
With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun's blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings…
