Image of the DayThe Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket launches from Pad-0A with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, Sunday, July 13, 2014, at NASA's...Nearby spiral galaxy NGC 1433, at about 32 million light-years from Earth, is a type of very active galaxy known...The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, is rolled out of the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF)...NASA's Smart SPHERES -- a prototype free-flying space robot equipped with a smartphone -- will test 3-D mapping and navigation...The Cassini spacecraft captures three magnificent sights at once: Saturn's north polar vortex and hexagon along with its expansive rings.Expedition 40 Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency posted this photograph of windswept valleys in Northern Africa,...Spiral galaxy NGC 4258 puts on galactic light show with a giant black hole, shock waves and vast reservoirs of...This image of Tropical Storm Arthur was taken by the GOES West satellite at the far eastern periphery of its...July 2, 2014 -- A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket launches with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite onboard...The launch gantry is rolled back to reveal the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2...The upper levels of the launch gantry, surrounding the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2...The launch gantry surrounding the Delta II rocket with the second Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite onboard is seen in this...On Thursday, June 26, the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station got a chance to catch up on...A test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft descends under its three main parachutes above the U.S. Army Proving Ground in...NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used the camera at the end of its arm in April and May 2014 to take...On June 23, 2014, Expedition 40 Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman captured this image which connects Earth to the International Space...The dwarf galaxy NGC 5474 contains several billion stars, compared to the Milky Way with its hundreds of billions of...The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image on June 5, 2014 as a...This storm cell photo was taken from NASA's high-altitude ER-2 aircraft on May 23, 2014, during a study aimed at...In honor of the fifth anniversary of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the public selected this image of Tycho Central...NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Steve Swanson and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst take a break to watch ten minutes of live...Taking center stage in this Hubble image is a galaxy known as NGC 3081, set against an assortment of glittering...As fans around the world tune in to World Cup 2014, a few fans out of this world will be...This view in the International Space Station, photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member, shows how it looks inside the...The Orion crew module for Exploration Flight Test-1 is shown in the Final Assembly and System Testing (FAST) Cell, positioned...Saturn's moon Prometheus is caught in the act of creating gores and streamers in the F ring.This new Hubble image shows NGC 1566, a beautiful galaxy located 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Dorado.On Mars, we can observe four classes of sandy landforms formed by the wind, or aeolian bedforms: ripples, transverse aeolian...Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have assembled a comprehensive picture of the evolving universe – among the most colorful...Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center have begun structural testing of one of the largest composite cryotanks ever built.A narrow barrier island protects the Lagoon of Venice from storm waves in the northern Adriatic Sea, and breakwaters protect...The world’s largest heat shield, measuring 16.5 feet in diameter, has been successfully attached to the Orion spacecraft. The heat...NASA demonstrated that it can land an unmanned spacecraft on a rugged planetary surface in the pitch dark in a...At the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the Orion crew module and heat shield are being...The Soyuz TMA-13M rocket is launched with Expedition 40 Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev, of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos,...The Soyuz TMA-13M rocket is launched with Maxim Suraev, Alexander Gerst and Reid Wiseman aboard in this 30-second exposure.The Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft is rolled out to the launch pad by train on Monday, May 26, 2014, at the...On May 23, 2014, Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson posted this photograph of the Western Sahara -- taken from the...On Feb. 10, 2001, the crews of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station successfully installed the U.S....Soyuz Commander and cosmonaut Maxim Suraev, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and European astronaut Alexander Gerst will launch aboard the Soyuz...
