The Russian Progress 49 unmanned cargo carrier spacecraft leaves the aft port of the Zvezda service module aboard the International…
Today’s image features a perspective view of the Alver crater, recently named for Estonian poet Betti Alver (1906-1989). Alver’s husband…
The image above shows a potential volcanic vent within the crater Glinka. The resolution of this image is more than…
The artist’s concept depicts Kepler-69c, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star like our sun, located about…
The diagram compares the planets of the inner solar system to Kepler-69, a two-planet system about 2,700 light-years from Earth…
Workers unload NASA’s IRIS spacecraft from a truck at the processing facility at Vandenberg where the spacecraft will be readied…
The diagram compares the planets of the inner solar system to Kepler-62, a five-planet system about 1,200 light-years from Earth…
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – Technicians work on the payload fairing that will protect NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft…
Relative sizes of Kepler habitable zone planets discovered as of April 18, 2013. Left to right: Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f…
