Image of the DayThe Franz Joseph Strauss, or Munich, International Airport served 29 million passengers in 2005, making it Germany's second-busiest airport. The...Infant stars glow gloriously in this infrared image of the Serpens Constellation's star-forming region, located approximately 8484 light-years away. Glowing...Saturn's fascinating meteorology manifests itself as a "string of pearls" formation, spanning more than 60,000 kilometers (37,000 miles). Seen in...This artist's concept of a gas giant planet orbiting a red dwarf K star shows a planet has not been...This glimpse of the Tibetan Lake Country north of Katmandu and west of Ihasa was photographed from by Gordon Cooper...Even with a good telescope you won't come across a sight quite like this one. It is a familiar object...Resembling a work of modern art, variegated green crop circles cover what was once shortgrass prairie in southwestern Kansas. The...Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968: Mission commander Frank Borman, command module pilot James Lovell and lunar module pilot William Anders...This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer found evidence...Nearly enveloped by the smoke after ignition, the Delta II rocket carrying NASA's Dawn spacecraft rises from the launch pad...The Day fire has been burning in Southern California's Ventura County since Labor Day, and has consumed more than 160,000...STS-117 mission specialist Steven Swanson participates in the mission's second extravehicular activity. Among other tasks, Swanson and fellow astronaut Patrick...Three thousand light-years away, the Cat's Eye Nebula, a dying star throws off shells of glowing gas. This image from...This Hubble Space Telescope image of the star V838 Monocerotis reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of surrounding dusty cloud...Eta Car is a massive star, but it's not as bright as it used to be. Now visible only in...Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, and astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (bottom), Expedition 14 commander and...This 1990 multiple exposure image shows the Puma Robotic Sensor Arm in action. The robot was used in virtual reality...Dominating the top third of Africa is the Sahra Desert, Earth's largest band of dry land. Stretching across the Sahara...Where is the center of the Egg Nebula? Like a baby chick pecking its way out of an egg, the...Technicians continued to work on the Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft in the Soyuz Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan...The full beauty of the Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is revealed in this new, detailed view from NASA's Hubble...When the sun reflects off the surface of the ocean at the same angle that a satellite sensor is viewing...Astronauts Jim Reilly and John Olivas (visible among Reilly's helmet reflections), both STS-117 mission specialists, participate in the mission's first...Astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (top), Expedition 14 commander and NASA space station science officer, and cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, flight engineer...Concluding mission STS-115, Atlantis and her crew return to Kennedy Space Center and approach a landing before sunrise on Runway...This is one of a series of images photographed with a digital still camera featuring the different areas of the...Compared to Old World settlements like Rome and Alexandria, Egypt, Cape Cod is fairly young. Cape Cod's geology is fairly...Expedition 16 commander Peggy A. Whitson participated in the 100th spacewalk for the construction and maintenance of the International Space...Though ghostly in appearance like a hologram, aerogel is very solid and feels like hard styrofoam to the touch. Aerogel...Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter lifts off from Cape Canaveral on May 24, 1962, in his Aurora 7 capsule. The fourth...An aluminum bulkhead of the center truss segment test article for the international space station completes machining at Boeing facilities...This 1992 photograph shows a world record breaking paper airplane inside a hangar at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia.A volcano named Sapas Mons dominates this computer-generated view of the surface of Venus. Lava flows extend for hundreds of...This artist's conception shows the relative size of a hypothetical brown dwarf-planetary system compared to our own solar system. A...This image of the International Space Station was taken as Space Shuttle Discovery approaches the station during rendezvous and docking...NASA Hubble Space Telescope's most detailed visible-light image ever taken of a narrow, dusty ring around the nearby star Fomalhaut...NASA's Deep Impact mission kicked off Independence Day with some celestial fireworks, about 83 million miles from Earth. The mission's...In the early 1930's, Dr. Robert H. Goddard towed his rocket to the launching tower behind a Model A Ford...The first image of Earth from the red planet was captured earlier this month, May 2003, by the camera onboard...The image composite compares an infrared image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to a visible-light picture of the same...
