The shadow of Saturn’s moon Mimas dips onto the planet’s rings and straddles the Cassini Division in this natural color…
A successful test of the Orion crew module’s energy absorbing strut concept, was performed June 9, 2009, at the Landing…
In impact studies conducted in Hampton’s Back River by NASA’s Langley Research Center, astronauts practiced the dangerous maneuver of exiting…
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, rolled aboard their Atlas V…
An United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasts off with NASA’s LRO/LRCOSS mission from Space Launch Complex-41, Cape Canaveral Air…
The oldest material on Earth which has yet been dated by man is a zircon mineral that is 4.4 billion…
In this image, taken June 14, workers on Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A prepare to remove the 7-inch quick…
Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s biggest explosions, capable of producing so much light that ground-based telescopes easily detect it billions…
In the darkened interior of NASA’s SOFIA flying observatory, NASA and German scientists study the results of system tests on…
Night falls on Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida following rollback of the pad’s rotating service…