
Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA is seen floating outside the International Space Station during a spacewalk. Pesquet and Expedition…

The Suomi NPP satellite’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument captured a look at dozens and dozens of fires…

On May 25, 1961, president John F. Kennedy announced that the United States would commit to a lunar landing by…

This optical image shows the Was 49 system, which consists of a large disk galaxy, Was 49a, merging with a…

What appears as a pair of bright dashes at the center of this image is one of the features rings…

This enhanced-color image of a mysterious dark spot on Jupiter seems to reveal a Jovian “galaxy” of swirling storms.

A 14” Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with a focal reducer and astronomical video cameras used to observe lunar impact flashes at the…

The Automated Lunar and Meteor Observatory (ALaMO) consists of two observatory domes, a 15 meter (50 ft) tower with a…

The Automated Lunar and Meteor Observatory (ALaMO) consists of two observatory domes, a 15 meter (50 ft) tower with a…