This 1963 photograph shows vent flowing cryogenic fuel and T/C Rake mounted on a 1/10 scale model Centaur rocket in…
How do we know that dark matter isn’t just normal matter exhibiting strange gravity? A new observation of gravitationally magnified…
The Aura spacecraft, atop the Boeing Delta II rocket, successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California on…
On May 14, 1607, a group of London-based entrepreneurs and accompanying laborers, collectively known as the Virginia Company, made landfall…
Astronaut Steve Smith works on Hubble during STS-82, the second servicing mission in 1997, using a specially designed tool that…
Dust pillars are like interstellar mountains. They survive because they are more dense than their surroundings; however, they are being…
It’s all smiles for Expedition 9 Flight Engineer Mike Fincke after a landing in Kazakhstan on Saturday, Oct. 23. Fincke…
Cosmonauts Fyodor N. Yurchikhin (right) and Oleg V. Kotov (center), Expedition 15 commander and flight engineer, respectively, representing Russia’s Federal…
A new striking image from the infrared telescope shows a vibrant cloud called the Trifid Nebula dotted with glowing stellar…
This dramatic image of the nearby galaxy Centaurus A provides one of the best views to date of the effects…