An exhaust cloud billowed around Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as space shuttle Discovery lifted…
Space shuttle Discovery’s engines ignited at 6:21 a.m. EDT Monday, April 5, for liftoff of the STS-131 mission from Launch…
The Russian-built Mini-Research Module-1 is prepared for installation in the payload canister before transport to Launch Pad 39A.
Edwin P. Hubble-famed astronomer-and basketball star? In fact, Dr. Hubble was both. The University of Chicago alumnus was a member…
The summit of South America’s Llullaillaco Volcano has an elevation of 22,110 feet above sea level, making it the highest…
On April 1, 1960, a satellite designed by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) launched to become the nation’s first…
These two false-color images of the large Petermann glacier in northern Greenland from the Landsat satellite clearly show the center…
The Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft arrived by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, March, 31, 2010.…
Subtle color differences on Saturn’s moon Mimas are apparent in this false-color view of Herschel Crater captured by NASA’s Cassini…
This new composite image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope shows the dusty remains of a collapsed…
