Mars Exploration Rover Spirit acquired this false-color image on the rover’s on Martian day, or sol, 746 (Feb. 26, 2006)…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has captured infrared images of the “Whirlpool Galaxy” (M51), revealing strange structures bridging the gaps between…
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity entered Victoria Crater on the rover’s 1,291st Martian day, or sol, (Sept. 11, 2007). The…
The launch team at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and the crew of STS-122 concluded a successful dress rehearsal for the…
The Hubble Space Telescope has “caught” the Boomerang Nebula in these new images taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys.…
Floating in the Atlantic Ocean about 150 miles northeast of Cape Canaveral are the right and left solid rocket boosters,…
Malaspina Glacier in southeastern Alaska is considered the classic example of a piedmont glacier. Piedmont glaciers occur where valley glaciers…
The sun-orbiting SOHO spacecraft has imaged many erupting filaments lifting off the active solar surface and blasting enormous bubbles of…
This enhanced false color view is a departure from the familiar bluish north and golden south seen in natural color…
Looking more like the map of another planet than a view of this world, this topographic radar image of Los…