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Full Moon Over Washington
Full Moon Over Washington

A United States Marine Corps helicopter is seen flying through this scene of the full moon and the U.S. Capitol…

NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 911’s Final Flight
NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 911’s Final Flight

NASA 911, one of two modified Boeing 747s that were modified for use as Shuttle Carrier Aircraft for the space…

NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 911’s Final Flight
NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 911’s Final Flight

Jeff Moultrie, Bob Zimmerman, and Henry Taylor, (left to right) of Johnson Space Center’s Aircraft Operations Directorate took a brief…

Janice Voss with Kepler Star Field
Janice Voss with Kepler Star Field

Astronaut and former Kepler mission science office director Janice Voss inspects a printout depicting the star field as seen through…

Large X-class Flare Erupts on the Sun
Large X-class Flare Erupts on the Sun

On Jan. 27, 2012, a large X-class flare erupted from an active region near the solar west limb. X-class flares…

Quintet of Moons
Quintet of Moons

A quintet of Saturn’s moons come together in the Cassini spacecraft’s field of view for this portrait. Janus (179 kilometers,…

Rings and Enceladus
Rings and Enceladus

A crescent Enceladus appears with Saturn’s rings in this Cassini spacecraft view of the moon. The famed jets of water…

Remnant of a Supernova
Remnant of a Supernova

Vital clues about the devastating ends to the lives of massive stars can be found by studying the aftermath of…

New Ideas for Greener Aircraft
New Ideas for Greener Aircraft

hree industry teams spent 2011 studying how to meet NASA’s goals for making future aircraft burn 50 percent less fuel…

Panorama of the East Coast
Panorama of the East Coast

This Jan. 29 panorama of much of the East Coast, photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard…