
Kepler Prepared for Launch

Students compete in the Washington, DC regional FIRST Robotics Competition at the Washington, DC Convention Center, Saturday Feb., 28, 2009.…

The Scout program began in 1957 to build an inexpensive sounding rocket to carry small research payloads to high altitudes…

Technicians Connect Fairing

Kepler Leaves Astrotech

Kepler Joins 3rd Stage

Astronaut John Phillips (foreground), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata and astronaut Richard Arnold, all STS-119 mission specialists,…

This first of its kind three-dimensional picture of Mars’ north pole, taken in 1999, enables scientists to estimate the volume…

Soaring like a bird above the Sierra Nevada snowscape, a NASA ER-2 high-altitude Earth science aircraft banks during flight. NASA’s…

The comet Lulin (center-right) is seen through the trees from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, Monday, Feb. 23, 2009. Lulin,…