Haze from the fires in Southern California make sun spots more visible in this photo from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research…
Three striking and important areas of Tanzania in eastern Africa are shown in this color-coded shaded relief image from the…
In this May 12, 2002, ASTER image the features that look like folded material are carbonate sand dunes in the…
Backdropped by a colorful Earth, this full view of the International Space Station was photographed from the Space Shuttle Discovery…
This artist’s concept depicts the pulsar planet system discovered by Aleksander Wolszczan in 1992. Wolszczan used the Arecibo radio telescope…
This nighttime view of Saturn’s north pole by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard Cassini clearly shows a bizarre…
At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the STS-122 mission crew members stride out of the Operations and Checkout Building, eager to…
This photograph of the coil-shaped Helix Nebula is one of the largest and most detailed celestial images ever made. The…
The Ohio River becomes a tributary of the Mississippi River directly south of Cairo, Illinois, a small city on the…
A rare, infrared view of a developing star and its flaring jets taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows us…