Space Shuttle Discovery landed safely at 5:32 p.m. EST on Dec. 22, at Kennedy Space Center to bring STS-116's successful…
Sulfur-rich rocks in the "Columbia Hills" on Mars stand out in bright blue in this false-color image from the Spirit…
This aerial view of the Shuttle Enterprise from 1978 shows the shuttle orbiter being hoisted into Marshall's Dynamic Test Stand…
NASA Astronaut Ed White made history on June 3, 1965, when he floated out of the hatch of his Gemini…
The blackness of space and Earth's horizon provide the backdrop for this image of the docked Soyuz 13 (TMA-9) (foreground)…
Anchored to the International Space Station's Canadarm2 foot restraint, astronauts Robert L. Curbeam Jr. (top) and Christer Fuglesang (center) work…
Astronaut Robert Curbeam works on the port overhead solar array wing on the International Space Station's P6 truss during the…
Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies the young star…
Framed by the Earth's horizon and airglow, the full moon floats in the blackness of space in this photo from…
Apollo 15 Commander Dave Scott salutes the American flag at the the Hadley-Apennine lunar landing site. The Lunar Module "Falcon"…
