Image of the DayBackdropped by a colorful Earth, this full view of the International Space Station was photographed from the Space Shuttle Discovery...At NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the STS-122 mission crew members stride out of the Operations and Checkout Building, eager to...This photograph of the coil-shaped Helix Nebula is one of the largest and most detailed celestial images ever made. The...This nighttime view of Saturn's north pole by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard Cassini clearly shows a bizarre...The Ohio River becomes a tributary of the Mississippi River directly south of Cairo, Illinois, a small city on the...This artist's concept depicts the pulsar planet system discovered by Aleksander Wolszczan in 1992. Wolszczan used the Arecibo radio telescope...Located 1,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Perseus, a reflection nebula called NGC 1333 epitomizes the beautiful chaos...A rare, infrared view of a developing star and its flaring jets taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows us...Stunningly detailed, this picture is a computer-simulated view of a cluster of galaxies in the distant cosmos. A large, elliptical...A grandiose gesture of gravity, Saturn's icy rings fan out across many thousands of kilometers of space. The moon Pan...In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Mars Exploration Rover-2 (MER-2) rests in the proper position on the base petal...The Ghost Head Nebula, or NGC 2080, is a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of...Stars are born out of icy cocoons of gas and dust in this diagram illustrating the earliest journeys of water...George Washington not only served as the namesake for the capital city of the United States, he also chose its...Astronomers were surprised to discover a 25-million-year-old protoplanetary disk around a pair of red dwarf stars 350 light-years away in...This mosaic image from the Hubble and Spitzer telescopes and the Chandra Observatory is the sharpest wide-angle view ever obtained...This 1965 photograph of the lunar landscape shows a model made using a technique developed by Dr. Eugene M. Shoemaker...Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxies, containing a vast number of...NASA Administrator Michael Griffin watches the solid rocket booster separation from firing room four during the launch of the Space...Space Shuttle Discovery lands at Edwards Air Force Base at 8:12 a.m. EDT on August 9 after spending nearly two...A Russian Soyuz rocket rumbles toward the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for tonight's launch to the...NASA continues its steady progress toward Return to Flight with a key milestone at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida....Mythical home of Zeus, Mount Olympus is the highest peak in Greece, at 9,570 feet (2,917 meters). In this winter...On Nov. 28, 1964, NASA launched Mariner 4 en route to the Red Planet. The spacecraft flew past Mars on...Along the coast of California, the tectonic plate underlying the Pacific Ocean and the plate harboring the North American landmass...The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft captured this image of a solar flare - the third most powerful ever...What's happening on Jupiter's moon Io? Two sulfurous eruptions are visible on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io in this color composite...STS-103 payload commander Steven L. Smith retrieved a power tool while standing on the mobile foot restraint at the end...A computer-generated view shows the bottom of the Space Shuttle Discovery in flight with the new Remote Manipulator System/Orbiter Booster...One of the highest mountain reliefs on Earth can be found in the tiny country of Bhutan. Sandwiched between eastern...The largest river on the planet, the Amazon, forms from the confluence of the Solimões (the upper Amazon River) and...From left to right: Sigmar Wittig, head of the German Space Agency; William Gerstenmaier, NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations;...Scattered debris from a cosmic supernova explosion lights up the sky in this gorgeous composited image based on data from...The Optical Spectroscopic and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS) camera on board the Rosetta spacecraft observed Earth during its swing-by...The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (now Spitzer Space Telescope) whizzes in front of a brilliant, infrared view of the Milky...This photograph shows the salt ponds of one of Africa's major producers of soda ash (sodium carbonate) and salt. Soda...In 1991, the governments of Denmark and Sweden agreed to build a bridge to connect the two countries across the...Mars Exploration Rover Spirit acquired this false-color image on the rover's on Martian day, or sol, 746 (Feb. 26, 2006)...NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured infrared images of the "Whirlpool Galaxy" (M51), revealing strange structures bridging the gaps between...NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity entered Victoria Crater on the rover's 1,291st Martian day, or sol, (Sept. 11, 2007). The...
