NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has identified about 1,000 extremely obscured objects over the sky, as marked by the…
This image is a portion of the all-sky survey from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. It highlights the…
This artist’s concept illustrates Kepler-47, the first transiting circumbinary system – multiple planets orbiting two suns – 4,900 light-years from…
The two planets of Kepler-47, the first transiting circumbinary system – a system with more than one planet orbiting a…
This visible image of Tropical Storm Isaac taken from NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite shows the huge extent of the storm, where…
Astronaut Scott Carpenter climbs into Aurora 7 ahead of launching on the second American manned orbital flight on May 24,…
Inside Hangar S at the White Room Facility at Cape Canaveral, Florida, Scott Carpenter examines the honeycomb protective material on…
Fellow Mercury astronaut John Glenn, right, congratulates Carpenter after his Aurora 7 flight on May 24, 1962. Carpenter had served…
Astronaut Scott Carpenter monitors the Booster Systems Console in the Mission Control Center during the launch of the Gemini 11…
