This supernova remnant was produced by a massive star that exploded in a nearby galaxy called the Small Magellanic Cloud.
For most of human history, we mortals have dreamed of taking to the skies. Then, 115 years ago on on…
Central Africa is lit up with agricultural fires that span the entire continent in this image taken by the Suomi…
Technicians used joysticks to operate transporters carrying the 149-foot-long liquid hydrogen tank structural test article on to NASA’s barge Pegasus,…
Technicians at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, moved the largest piece of structural test hardware for America’s new…
The newly-expanded six-member Expedition 57 crew poses for a portrait inside the International Space Station’s Zvezda service module.
Before electricity, water fountains worked by relying on gravity to channel water from a higher elevation to a lower one.…
Russian spacewalker Oleg Kononenko (suit with red stripes) attached to the Strela boom outside the International Space Station about 250…
Russian spacewalker Oleg Kononenko (suit with red stripes) works outside the International Space Station over 250 miles above Earth to…
Russian spacewalkers Oleg Kononenko (suit with red stripes) and Sergey Prokopyev (suit with blue stripes) work outside the International Space…