
This panorama taken by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity includes an outcrop informally called “Cambridge Bay.” Opportunity examined this outcrop…

A group watching motions of an engineering model of the camera mast for NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity on March 5,…

The sands of time are running out for the central star of this the Hourglass Nebula. With its nuclear fuel…

The Expedition 24 crew on the International Space Station photographed this image of polar mesospheric clouds illuminated by an orbital…

Viking 1 images composite of Mars by USGS University of Arizona. The Viking 1 Mission was flown in June of…

This composite image shows the Rosette star formation region, located about 5,000 light years from Earth. Data from the Chandra…

Backdropped by red hills, the Development Motor-2, or DM-2, ignites during an Aug. 31, 2010, static test that was conducted…

The current Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite GOES-13 captured this image of Hurricane Danielle heading for the north Atlantic (top center),…

This graphic shows the planned flight path of NASA’s Global Hawk high-altitude environmental science aircraft during its Aug. 28 flight…

Spiral galaxy NGC 4921 presently is estimated to be 320 million light years distant. This image, taken by the Hubble…