Image of the DayMalaspina Glacier in southeastern Alaska is considered the classic example of a piedmont glacier. Piedmont glaciers occur where valley glaciers...The Hubble Space Telescope has "caught" the Boomerang Nebula in these new images taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys....The launch team at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and the crew of STS-122 concluded a successful dress rehearsal for the...Floating in the Atlantic Ocean about 150 miles northeast of Cape Canaveral are the right and left solid rocket boosters,...Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) played Bob Marley's "Get Up, Stand Up" late Thursday night, as they watched...Against the blue of the Atlantic Ocean, space shuttle Atlantis with its crew of seven rises majestically from Launch Pad...Looking more like the map of another planet than a view of this world, this topographic radar image of Los...The sun-orbiting SOHO spacecraft has imaged many erupting filaments lifting off the active solar surface and blasting enormous bubbles of...President George W. Bush watches the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery in the Oval Office's Private Dining Room Tuesday,...This enhanced false color view is a departure from the familiar bluish north and golden south seen in natural color...Planet HD 209458b is evaporating. It is so close to its parent star that its heated atmosphere is simply expanding...This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a galaxy that appears to be sizzling hot, with huge plumes...The central region of the small galaxy NGC 1705 blazes with the light of thousands of young and old stars...As the New Horizons spacecraft continues its journey, it gives to those of us who are Earth bound breathtaking images...Crisp details in a suite of mid-latitude gullies on a crater wall are captured in this Mars Global Surveyor Mars...The Expedition 10 and 11 crews give the "thumbs up" after the change of command ceremony on the International Space...Northeastern Argentina's Ibera Swamp was photographed from aboard the International Space Station by Leroy Chiao, the Expedition 10 commander. The...U.S. Air Force Thunderbird F-16 jets fly in formation past the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. Later...A growing black hole, called a quasar, can be seen at the center of a faraway galaxy in this artist's...One of the largest and brightest spiral galaxies found in the Virgo cluster of galaxies, this image of galaxy NGC...In this artist's concept of the future, an astronaut gathers samples on the surface of Mars, while a robotic explorer...Strange shapes and textures can be found in the neighborhood of the Cone Nebula. These patterns result from the tumultuous...Why does Jupiter have rings? Jupiter's rings were discovered in 1979 by the passing Voyager 1 spacecraft, but their origin...Endeavour sits atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (a modified 747) in Palmdale, California, where the orbiter was built, ready for...Outcrops define the flank of "Husband Hill" inside Gusev Crater in this false-color view taken by the Mars rover Spirit...NASA's Hubble Space Telescope precisely measured the mass of the oldest known planet in our Milky Way galaxy. At an...This Voyager 2 high resolution color image provides obvious evidence of vertical relief in Neptune's bright cloud streaks. These clouds...Laser power stations, perhaps drawing energy from the local environment, might one day propel spacecraft throughout the solar system, as...In the center of star-forming region 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known....The ninth crew of the International Space Station rocketed into orbit from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome at 11:19 p.m. EDT on...The first hint of what will become of our sun was discovered inadvertently in 1764. At that time, Charles Messier...Hurricane Emily menaces Mexico's Yucatan peninsula in this July 16, 2005 image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument...The spiral galaxy M33 also is called the Triangulum Galaxy for the constellation in which it resides. About four times...This 2003 photo from the International Space Station shows a pair of volcanoes in Mexico. As part of the "Ring...The Colorado Plateau of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah is made of mostly flat-lying layers of sedimentary rock that...The pale blue Earth serves as a backdrop for astronaut Michael Gernhardt, who is attached to the Shuttle Endeavour's robot...This image of the elliptical galaxy NGC 1132 and its surrounding region combines data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and...Professor Stephen Hawking ireceived the world's oldest award for scientific achievement - the Royal Society's prestigious Copley medal - for...This glowing region reveals arcs and bubbles formed when stellar winds - streams of charged particles ejected by the Trapezium...Even if the moon really were made of green cheese it probably wouldn't look this bizarre. Still, this mosaic of...
