NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered an extraordinary outburst by a black hole in the spiral galaxy M83, located about…
The Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft is rolled out by train on its way to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome…
This is an artist’s concept of a crew inside SpaceX’s Dragon capsule. Dragon and the company’s integrated Falcon 9 rocket…
This 1972 oblique aerial image was taken by the U-2 aircraft during the Earth Resources Aircraft Program “ERAP” from a…
This computer-simulated image shows gas from a star that is ripped apart by tidal forces as it falls into a…
This is an artist’s concept of Sierra Nevada Corp.’s Dream Chaser spacecraft landing on a traditional runway. Dream Chaser and…
The Centaur second-stage rocket was Lewis Research Center’s most enduring contribution to the space program.Centaur’s primary assignment was to carry…
An international team of astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope made an unparalleled observation, detecting significant changes in…
This close-up image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows the July 6, 2012 X-class flare captured in the…
Researchers have obtained the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas surrounding the…