The drag chute is deployed behind Space Shuttle Discovery to help slow its landing, marking the successful conclusion of the…
One year ago today, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit touched down on the red planet. Three days later, it sent…
This image shows the Martian terrain in 3-D. The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured the image with its panoramic camera.
This artist’s conception shows the relative size of a hypothetical brown dwarf-planetary system compared to our own solar system. A…
NASA and the world lost seven brave explorers on Feb. 1, 2003, when the shuttle Columbia broke apart during re-entry.…
This 1981 photograph shows a space shuttle main engine undergoing a full power level 290.04 second test firing at the…
A view from the Space Shuttle Atlantis gives a good look of Hurricane Gordon. At the time the photo was…
The crewmembers of the Apollo 13 mission, step aboard the USS Iwo Jima following splashdown and recovery operations in the…
On the southwest coast of Africa, the soft orange sands of Namibia’s coastal desert rise to a rugged interior plateau,…
This montage of images of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, was taken by the New Horizons spacecraft’s flyby in…