Image of the DayOn March 22, 2014, a rainfall-triggered landslide near Oso, Washington sent muddy debris spilling across the North Fork of the...The gantry arms begin to close around the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft to secure the rocket at the launch pad on...The Soyuz TMA-12M rocket launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 carrying Expedition 39 Soyuz Commander...The sun rises behind the Soyuz launch pad shortly before the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft is rolled out by train to...This new Hubble image is centered on NGC 5793, a spiral galaxy over 150 million light-years away in the constellation...By March 6, 2014, skies over New Zealand's South Island had cleared enough after a powerful storm for the Moderate...Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and perhaps the most majestic. Vibrant bands of clouds carried by...Scientists, using cameras aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), have created the largest high resolution mosaic of our moon’s north...This colorful Hubble mosaic of a small portion of the Monkey Head Nebula unveils a collection of carved knots of...On Jan. 19, 2007, the Cassini spacecraft took this view of Saturn and its rings -- the visible documentation of...Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., pilot of the Mercury Atlas 6 (MA-6) spaceflight, poses for a photo with the Mercury...This 26 meter (85 foot) antenna operated in Woomera (Island Lagoon), Australia at Deep Space Station (DSS) 41, established in...A barge arrives at the U.S. Army Outpost wharf at Port Canaveral in Florida, carrying two of the three United...Engineers document cargo as it is unloaded from the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft after it landed with Expedition 38 Commander Oleg...A nearly full Rhea shines in the sunlight in this recent Cassini image. Rhea (949 miles, or 1,527 kilometers across)...Guenter Wendt, the original pad leader for NASA's manned space program, coaxes a smile out of astronaut John Glenn after...South America and portions of North America and Africa are shown in this false-color image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, taken...Mars’ northern-most sand dunes are beginning to emerge from their winter cover of seasonal carbon dioxide (dry) ice. Dark, bare...A NASA-funded sounding rocket launches into an aurora in the early morning of March 3, 2014, over Venetie, Alaska.Astronaut William R. Pogue, pilot of the Skylab 4 mission, relaxes during spacesuit pressure and fit checks at the Kennedy...This reprojection of the official USGS basemap of Jupiter's moon Europa is centered at the estimated source region for potential...An overhead view of the Skylab space station cluster in Earth orbit as photographed from the Skylab 4 Command and...Expedition 38 crew members pose for an in-flight crew portrait in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.A set of NanoRacks CubeSats is photographed by an Expedition 38 crew member after the deployment by the NanoRacks Launcher...A Japanese H-IIA rocket with the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory onboard, is seen...A Japanese H-IIA rocket carrying the NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory rolls out to launch pad 1 at the...On Feb. 19, 2014 the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this striking false-colored image of the...On Feb. 24, 2014, the sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:49 p.m. EST. These Solar Dynamics Observatory...The launch pads at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Tanegashima Space Center are seen a week ahead of the...Roguish runaway stars can have a big impact on their surroundings as they plunge through the Milky Way galaxy. Their...In this image of a dune field on Mars in a large crater near Mawrth Vallis, some of the dunes...This image—acquired by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on February 8, 2014—offers a view...An active region of the sun just rotating into the view of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory gives a profile view...This Chandra X-Ray Observatory image of the young star cluster NGC 346 highlights a heart-shaped cloud of 8 million-degree Celsius...The crawler-transporter that will carry NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B for launch on...The Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (SSOD), in the grasp of the Kibo laboratory robotic arm, is photographed by an Expedition...An Expedition 38 crew member aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of Sochi Olympic Park at night. Fisht...Solar array panels on the Russian segment of the International Space Station and a blue and white part of Earth...The 2014 Winter Olympic ski runs may be rated double black diamond, but they're not quite as steep as they...On Feb. 1, 2014, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata tweeted this view of a crescent moon rising and...
