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Artist’s Concept of Deep Impact’s Encounter with Comet Tempel 1
Artist’s Concept of Deep Impact’s Encounter with Comet Tempel 1

This artist’s concept shows us the first time Deep Impact encountered a comet – Tempel 1 in July 2005. Deep…

USA Science and Engineering Festival
USA Science and Engineering Festival

Principles of air flow are explained to visitors to the wind tunnel exhibit at the USA Science and Engineering Festival,…

A Break in Training
A Break in Training

At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the STS-133 crew takes a break from a simulated launch countdown to ham…

Crackling with Solar Flares
Crackling with Solar Flares

Fast-growing sunspot 1112 is crackling with solar flares. So far, none of the blasts has hurled a substantial CME, or…

Sun and Moon
Sun and Moon

On Oct. 7, 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, observed its first lunar transit when the new moon passed…

Titan and Tethys
Titan and Tethys

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft obtained this raw image of Saturn’s moons Titan and Tethys on Oct. 18, 2010. Titan, Saturn’s largest…

DC-8 Flying Lab Departs for IceBridge Mission
DC-8 Flying Lab Departs for IceBridge Mission

NASA’s DC-8 flying science laboratory departed Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, CA, during a science instrument checkout flight for…

Ouachita Mountains
Ouachita Mountains

The Ouachita Mountains in southeastern Oklahoma are part of the only major mountain region between the Rockies and the Appalachians.…

Opportunity’s Eastward View After Sol 2382 Drive
Opportunity’s Eastward View After Sol 2382 Drive

This mosaic of images from the navigation camera on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a 90-degree view centered toward…

Where Stars Are Born
Where Stars Are Born

Found among the Small Magellanic Cloud’s clusters and nebulae NGC 346 is a star-forming region about 200 light-years across, pictured…