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Dancing With the Stars
Dancing With the Stars

Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxies, containing a vast number of…

Discovery Landing
Discovery Landing

Space Shuttle Discovery lands at Edwards Air Force Base at 8:12 a.m. EDT on August 9 after spending nearly two…

Back on Track
Back on Track

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin watches the solid rocket booster separation from firing room four during the launch of the Space…

Ready for Launch
Ready for Launch

A Russian Soyuz rocket rumbles toward the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for tonight’s launch to the…

Solid Rocket Boosters
Solid Rocket Boosters

NASA continues its steady progress toward Return to Flight with a key milestone at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.…

Io: The Prometheus Plume
Io: The Prometheus Plume

What’s happening on Jupiter’s moon Io? Two sulfurous eruptions are visible on Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io in this color composite…

Spirit’s Winter Work Site
Spirit’s Winter Work Site

On Nov. 28, 1964, NASA launched Mariner 4 en route to the Red Planet. The spacecraft flew past Mars on…

Massive Flare Erupts From Sun
Massive Flare Erupts From Sun

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft captured this image of a solar flare – the third most powerful ever…

Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus

Mythical home of Zeus, Mount Olympus is the highest peak in Greece, at 9,570 feet (2,917 meters). In this winter…

1906 San Francisco Earthquake
1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Along the coast of California, the tectonic plate underlying the Pacific Ocean and the plate harboring the North American landmass…