This artist’s rendering shows a possible fate for the Phoenix Mars Lander. As winter envelopes the Red Planet, the lander…
For many years scientists have known that our sun gives off powerful explosions, known as flares, that contain millions of…
This image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of…
Project LOLA – Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach. Artists used paintbrushes and airbrushes to recreate the lunar surface on each…
In high bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, a crane lowers space shuttle Discovery toward…
The Nardo Ring is a striking visual feature from space, and astronauts have photographed it several times. The Ring is…
Saturn was 810 million miles (1.3 billion kilometers) away when the Hubble Space Telescope took this ultraviolet image of the…
Galaxies don’t normally look like NGC 3256, this current picture of which shows two galaxies that are slowly colliding. Quite…
Near Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the crawler-transporter moves away after carrying space shuttle Discovery…
Grady McCoy stands in the Langley Research Center’s 16 foot transonic tunnel, as light reflects off the fan blades in…