Image of the DayOn Mar. 16, 1926, Dr. Robert H. Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Mass., laying the foundation...STS-114 astronaut Soichi Noguchi waves from the Shuttle payload bay, backdropped by the Earth below. During the mission's second spacewalk,...A Delta II rocket lit up the early morning sky over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida as it...A camera on the International Space Station captured this image of the docked Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay. There is...NASA engineer and test pilot Bruce Peterson (right) discusses the M2-F2 Lifting Body airplane with actor James Doohan, who played...The Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco formed as a result of the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates about...This photo by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls has been honored by United Press International as one of the top pictures...Dust makes this cosmic eye look red. This eerie Spitzer Space Telescope image shows infrared radiation from the well-studied Helix...This delightfully detailed false color image of Saturn is a combination of three images taken in January 1998 by the...The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) gets a high-speed workout by astronaut John W. Young in the "Grand Prix" run during...STS-116 Commander Mark Polansky (center) says a few words for the media following the landing of Discovery at the Kennedy...The equinox is an astronomical event that marks the first day of autumn in the northern hemisphere and spring in...Expedition 16 commander Peggy Whitson, Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko and spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor blasted off from the Baikonur...Dark and sharply defined ring shadows appear to constrict the flow of color from Saturn's warmly hued south to the...The crew of STS-85 used a 35mm camera with a time exposure to record this image of the southern lights...In Firing Room 4 of the Launch Control Center, employees wave American flags after the successful launch of Space Shuttle...This 1964 photograph shows NASA Pilot Joe Walker in the pilot's platform of the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) number...On July 1, 1976, President Gerald Ford attended the opening ceremony for the National Air and Space Museum. During the...One of the final "dry runs" found the Expedition 1 crew members training for their upcoming mission, about a week-and-half...The same weather system that brought snow and ice to the American Midwest just after Thanksgiving 2005 also kicked up...The image above reveals sharp boundaries between dark and light regions on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. The photo,...This composite image shows Z Camelopardalis, or Z Cam, a double-star system. The Z Cam system features a collapsed, dead...Images from the Hubble space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory combine to make this composite of N49,...Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth's horizon, the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Atlantis move farther apart...This stunning false-color view of Saturn's moon Hyperion reveals crisp details across the strange, tumbling moon's surface. Differences in color...Discovery's cargo bay over Earth's horizon was photographed by one of the seven STS-114 crew members as the Shuttle approached...A 310-mile (500km) shadow falls over Antarctica during a total solar eclipse on November 23, 2003, in this photo from...This image mosaic taken by the panoramic camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the rover's landing site, the...Space shuttle Discovery leaps from its launch pad on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007, to begin the STS-120 mission to the...A close-up view of Discovery's tail section is featured in this image that was taken during a backflip maneuver as...This Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) computer generated image shows a model of the space shuttle. CFD has taken the place...Astronaut Patrick Forrester participates in the mission's fourth and final session spacewalk. Among other tasks, Forrester and fellow astronaut Steven...The Argyle open-pit diamond mine, located in the Kimberley region in the far northeast of Western Australia, is the world's...After a 15-day mission to the International Space Station, space shuttle Discovery kicks up dust as its wheels touch down...This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the checkerboard region of Noctis Labyrinthus, the Labyrinth of Night, west of...New data on sea-level heights from February 2007 show that the tropical Pacific Ocean has transitioned from a warm (El...Surely one of the most spectacular sights the solar system has to offer, Saturn sits enveloped by the full splendor...Astronaut Robert L. Behnken, STS-123 mission specialist, participates in the mission's third scheduled spacewalk. During the 6-hour, 53-minute spacewalk, Behnken...In addition to looking heavenward, NASA helps the world see the Earth in ways no one else can. On Nov....The Trifid Nebula, aka M20, is easy to find with a small telescope and a well-known stop in the nebula...
