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…
The sun sets on Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida following rollback of the pad’s rotating…
From Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis roars into the sky on a…
An STS-125 crew member on board the space shuttle Atlantis snapped a still photo of the Hubble Space Telescope following…