Image of the DayIn the famous Pleiades star cluster, a star's light slowly destroys a passing cloud of gas and dust. The star,...Soft hues, partially lit orbs, a thin trace of the ring and slight shadows highlight this understated view of the...The Cassini spacecraft surveys Saturn's outstretched ring system in the infrared from a vantage point high above the planet's northern...The first recorded eruption of Mount Belinda Volcano, on Montagu Island in the remote South Sandwich Islands, began in October...A massive cluster of yellowish galaxies is seemingly caught in a spider web of distorted background galaxies in the left-hand...How do we know that dark matter isn't just normal matter exhibiting strange gravity? A new observation of gravitationally magnified...The Aura spacecraft, atop the Boeing Delta II rocket, successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California on...This 1963 photograph shows vent flowing cryogenic fuel and T/C Rake mounted on a 1/10 scale model Centaur rocket in...On May 14, 1607, a group of London-based entrepreneurs and accompanying laborers, collectively known as the Virginia Company, made landfall...Astronaut Steve Smith works on Hubble during STS-82, the second servicing mission in 1997, using a specially designed tool that...Dust pillars are like interstellar mountains. They survive because they are more dense than their surroundings; however, they are being...It's all smiles for Expedition 9 Flight Engineer Mike Fincke after a landing in Kazakhstan on Saturday, Oct. 23. Fincke...A new striking image from the infrared telescope shows a vibrant cloud called the Trifid Nebula dotted with glowing stellar...Cosmonauts Fyodor N. Yurchikhin (right) and Oleg V. Kotov (center), Expedition 15 commander and flight engineer, respectively, representing Russia's Federal...This dramatic image of the nearby galaxy Centaurus A provides one of the best views to date of the effects...Crew members from the Return to Flight mission, STS-114, check out a new piece of International Space Station hardware at...This nebula, also known as the "Eight-Burst" Nebula because of it appears to be a figure-8 when seen through some...On the northwestern coast of Madagascar, the salty waters of the Mozambique Channel penetrate inland to join with the freshwater...Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworks display, this Hubble image depicts the delicate filaments debris...The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, mission will fly twin spacecraft in tandem orbits around the moon to...To prepare for the Apollo landings, five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft were launched during 1966 and 1967 to gather detailed images...Astronaut Dave Williams, STS-118 mission specialist representing the Canadian Space Agency, wears a training spacesuit as he participates in an...On October 19, 2005, a rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base - the last Titan rocket. Carrying a...NASA's X-43A research vehicle has screamed into the record books, demonstrating an air-breathing engine can fly at nearly 10 times...This artist's concept shows delicate green crystals sprinkled throughout the core of a pair of colliding galaxies. The white spots...The Issaouane Erg (sand sea), seen in this January 2005 photo from the International Space Station, is located in eastern...Cassini's view of Saturn's icy moon Dione is enriched by the tranquil gold and blue hues of Saturn's rings in...Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This...Dreamy colors ranging from pale rose to butterscotch to sapphire give this utterly inhospitable gas planet a romantic appeal. Shadows...New York's Finger Lakes region is seen in this December 2004 image from the International Space Station. Shapes of the...Rabe Crater lies among hundreds of thousands of other impact craters in the rough-hewn southern highlands of Mars. Spanning 108...The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was formed on March 3, 1915, with a charter to "supervise and direct...Attired in Russian Sokol launch and entry suits, cosmonauts Fyodor N. Yurchikhin (right), Expedition 15 commander, and Oleg V. Kotov,...This artist's concept compares the size of a gargantuan star and its surrounding dusty disk to that of our solar...Why does the Sombrero Galaxy look like a hat? Reasons include the Sombrero's unusually large and extended central bulge of...Pilot Bill Dana looks up as the B-52 "mothership" cruises over NASA's HL-10 "lifting body" on Muroc Dry Lake, California,...This image of Torino, Italy was photographed by Expedition 12 on the International Space Station. Located in the Piemonte region...How would it look to have four suns in the sky? Planets of the HD 98800 system, if they exist,...This test conducted in May 1988 shows what happens during launch if a space shuttle main engine fails. The test...What happens when a galaxy falls in with the wrong crowd? The irregular galaxy NGC 1427A is a spectacular example...
