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Sunrise on Mars
Sunrise on Mars

Above the Martian arctic circle, the sun does not set during the peak of the Martian summer. But, this period…

Putting on the Shades
Putting on the Shades

At the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a worker looks over the star tracker sun…

GLAST Launches
GLAST Launches

The GLAST spacecraft lifts off aboard a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Cocooned Within
Cocooned Within

The first half of the payload fairing is moved into place around NASA’s Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope within the…

Project RED SOCKS
Project RED SOCKS

Project RED SOCKS was to be “the world’s first useful moon rocket,” proposed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of…

The Reveal
The Reveal

In the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, General Dynamics technicians check the GLAST spacecraft as…

Bigger Boosters
Bigger Boosters

In the mobile service tower on Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, United Launch Alliance technicians…

A Clash of Clusters Provides New Clue to Dark Matter
A Clash of Clusters Provides New Clue to Dark Matter

This clash of clusters provides striking evidence for dark matter and insight into its properties.

Morning Frost on the Surface of Mars
Morning Frost on the Surface of Mars

A thin layer of water frost is visible on the ground around NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander in this image taken…

When Galaxies Collide
When Galaxies Collide

Galaxies don’t normally look like this. That’s because this image of NGC 3256 shows two galaxies that are slowly colliding.…