
This photo simulation shows a laboratory-created “chemical garden,” which is a chimney-like structure found at bubbling vents on the seafloor.

Astronauts on the International Space Station continue testing the VEGGIE hardware for growing vegetables and plants in space. VEGGIE provides…

A Near Space Corporation high-altitude balloon is highlighted by the sun as it lifts a prototype space reentry capsule designed…

On July 28, 2015, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite captured images of algal blooms around…

Thanks to the illumination angle, Mimas (right) and Dione (left) appear to be staring up at a giant Saturn looming…

The Douglas D-558-II “Skyrockets” were among the early transonic research airplanes like the X-1, X-4, X-5, and X-92A.

Technicians fill and prepare a Near Space Corporation high-altitude balloon for a Small Balloon System test flight at the Tillamook…

Terminal Velocity Aerospace technicians prepare an orbital entry return capsule for a Small Balloon System test flight aboard a Near…

Elongated streams of plasma zipped back and forth along magnetic field lines suspended above the sun limb on July 26-27,…

NASA’s Terra satellite spotted a large area of smoke from the Wolverine Fire that stretched over central and western Washington,…