Space Shuttle Discovery's crew witnessed this bright full moon from orbit during a December 1999 mission that included servicing the…
The photo shows the "energy flash" when a projectile launched at speeds up to 17,000 miles an hour impacts a…
The Franz Joseph Strauss, or Munich, International Airport served 29 million passengers in 2005, making it Germany's second-busiest airport. The…
Like cascading snowflakes in the interstellar night, the strange shapes and textures of the stars in the Snowflake Cluster abound…
The Shuttle Discovery, along with its External Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters, begins the long roll towards Launch Pad 39B…
Infant stars glow gloriously in this infrared image of the Serpens Constellation's star-forming region, located approximately 8484 light-years away. Glowing…
Saturn's fascinating meteorology manifests itself as a "string of pearls" formation, spanning more than 60,000 kilometers (37,000 miles). Seen in…
Even with a good telescope you won't come across a sight quite like this one. It is a familiar object…
This artist's concept of a gas giant planet orbiting a red dwarf K star shows a planet has not been…
This glimpse of the Tibetan Lake Country north of Katmandu and west of Ihasa was photographed from by Gordon Cooper…
