Image of the DayThe Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, located in California's Mojave Desert, is one of three complexes which comprise NASA's Deep...A collision of two galaxies has left a merged star system with an unusual appearance as well as bizarre internal...This panorama mosaic, taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on board NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, documents the passage of the...Awaiting orders to proceed to the launch site for Project Mercury's second attempt to launch a man into space, astronaut...How do you weigh the biggest black holes in the universe? One answer now comes from a completely new and...California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and NASA Ames Research Center Director S. Pete Worden examine hyperwall-2, a state-of-the-art visualization system developed...STS-124 commander Mark E. Kelly (left) introduced his crew mates and made a presentation at NASA's Washington D.C. headquarters on...Lightning triggered a complex of forest fires in Northern California's Klamath National Forest on June 21, 2008. As of July...This image, taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, shows the lander's robotic arm scoop positioned...Attired in his Russian Orlan spacesuit, Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Expedition 17 flight engineer, prepared for the...Technicians at NASA Ames Research Center are reflected in the coated SOFIA telescope main mirror suspended above them. The main...A backhoe is used during repair work under way on the flame trench on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy...Norilsk, a major city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, and the northernmost city in Siberia, was founded in the 1930s as...In this photo from 2006, a mother osprey watches over her chicks in a nest near the NASA News Center...A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. A contrail from an alien spaceship? A jet from a...An adult bald eagle rests near a pond at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Natural fishermen, bald eagles live near large...This image was acquired by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager (SSI) in the late afternoon of the 30th...On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride made history, becoming the first American woman to go space. In this image, Ride...Visitors to the National Mall get an up close and personal view of the space shuttle's main engine thanks to...The 42nd Annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., held in summer 2008, showcases the role...Nils Larson from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center shows a high altitude pressure suit, complete with whiffle ball on the...Reminiscent of a fireworks celebration, this Hubble Space Telescope image of a cosmic explosion that is quite similar to fireworks...Early spring typically brings dust storms to northern polar regions of Mars. As the north polar cap begins to thaw,...At the center of spiral galaxy M81 is a supermassive black hole about 70 million times more massive than our...Astronaut Shannon W. Lucid made history in 1996 on the Russian Mir Space Station, her home for six months, as...Eighty years ago this week on June 18, 1928, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic...Astronauts Ron Garan and Mike Fossum perform tasks during the STS-124's mission's third scheduled spacewalk as construction and maintenance continue...Astronaut Ron Garan participates in the mission's second spacewalk. During the seven-hour, 11-minute spacewalk, Garan and fellow STS-124 astronaut Mike...Space Shuttle Discovery touches down on runway 15 of the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, concluding the...Backdropped by a sparkling blue and white Earth, Expedition 16 commander Peggy A. Whitson participated in the 100th spacewalk for...The Crew Mobility Chassis Prototype is NASA's new concept for a lunar truck. Researchers are trying it out at Moses...Astronaut Ron Garan works on assigned tasks during the last scheduled spacewalk of the STS-124 mission specialist. During the six-hour,...One of a series of digital still images documenting the Japanese Experiment Module, or JEM, also called Kibo, in its...Astronaut Mike Fossum continues his duties during this the second of the STS-124 mission's three scheduled spacewalks. During the seven-hour,...Astronaut Ron Garan participated in the first of STS-124's three planned spacewalks as construction and maintenance continue on the International...Astronaut Mike Fossum used a digital camera to create this self-portrait during the STS-124 mission's first scheduled spacewalk. During the...This view of space shuttle Discovery's tail section was taken on flight day 3 by the Expedition 17 crew aboard...During the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965, Ed White became the first American to conduct a spacewalk. The...Above Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, space shuttle Discovery emerges from behind a growing cloud of smoke...North is up (the 12 o'clock position) in this seam-corrected 360 degree polar projection using images from sols, or Martian...
