A welding technician inspects a circumferential weld of the “pathfinder” version of the adapter design that will be used on…
Planck has discovered a bridge of hot gas that connects galaxy clusters Abell 399 (lower center) and Abell 401 (top…
The sun erupted with two prominence eruptions, one after the other over a four-hour period on Nov. 16, 2012. The…
Seen from the International Space Station, the Soyuz TMA-05M descent module begins to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere, leaving a plasma…
NASA’s modified Boeing 747 Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) No. 905 retracts its landing gear as it climbs into the…
NASA’s historic Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) No. 905 points its nose skyward after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base…
The Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft is seen shortly after it landed with Expedition 33 Commander Sunita Williams of NASA and Japanese…
ASA’s PhoneSat project has won Popular Science’s 2012 Best of What’s New Award for innovation in aerospace. PhoneSat will demonstrate…
These images of the planetary nebula Abell 30 show one of the clearest views ever obtained of a special phase…
Supernova remnant W44 is the focus of this new image created by combining data from the European Space Agency’s Herschel…
