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Comet ISON Seen Coming and Going
Comet ISON Seen Coming and Going

This time-lapse image shows Comet ISON approaching and leaving during its slingshot around the sun on Nov. 28, 2013.

Black Holes Have Simple Feeding Habits
Black Holes Have Simple Feeding Habits

A study using data from Chandra and ground-based telescopes, combined with detailed theoretical models, shows that the supermassive black hole…

Young Sunflower Plant Aboard Station
Young Sunflower Plant Aboard Station

A young sunflower plant is being closely monitored by the Expedition 38 crew members onboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station.

Parts of Texas, New Mexico and Mexican Border Area
Parts of Texas, New Mexico and Mexican Border Area

One of the Expedition 38 crew members aboard the International Space Station took this vertical photograph of parts of Texas…

View of Moon From Space Station
View of Moon From Space Station

Although crew members on the International Space Station view literally hundreds of scenes of the moon rising and setting over…

John Glenn Returns to Space
John Glenn Returns to Space

36 years after his historic Mercury flight, U.S. Sen. John Glenn returned to space on board the shuttle Discovery on…

Russian Soyuz Docked to Station
Russian Soyuz Docked to Station

One of the Expedition 37 crew members on Oct. 3 exposed this frame showing a Russian Soyuz vehicle docked to…

Comet Lovejoy Near the Big Dipper
Comet Lovejoy Near the Big Dipper

Comet Lovejoy is favorably located in the night sky for late-night observers.

Comet ISON Streams Toward the Sun
Comet ISON Streams Toward the Sun

Comet ISON is seen the lower right of this image from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory mission, captured at…

Rick Mastracchio Works in the Columbus Laboratory
Rick Mastracchio Works in the Columbus Laboratory

NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Expedition 38 flight engineer, works with Biolab hardware in the Columbus laboratory.