Using a model of its high-tech German-built telescope, SOFIA science mission operations director Erick Young of USRA outlines the capabilities…
On Oct. 22, 1968, the Apollo 7 crew is welcomed aboard the USS Essex, the mission’s prime recovery ship. This…
A comparison graphic showing the Kepler-16 system with the scale of the inner planets of our own solar system.
Engineers conducted the first test as part of Phase 1 of the Orion MPCV boilerplate test article at NASA’s Langley…
This interacting pair of galaxies is included in Arp’s catalog of peculiar galaxies as number 148. Arp 148 is the…
All six Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne space shuttle main engines from Endeavour’s STS-134 and Atlantis’ STS-135 missions sit in test cells…
This swirling landscape of stars is known as the North America Nebula. In visible light, the region resembles North America,…
This image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows what lies near the sword of the constellation Orion – an active…
Insignias from each of six manned Mercury 7 missions and autographs of the original seven NASA astronauts encircle the Mercury…
Chandra has detected more than 14,000 stars in the Carina Nebula, a star-forming region in the Sagittarius-Carina arm of the…