NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured Dione against the globe of Saturn as it approached the icy moon for its close rendezvous…
New observations of Ceres, the largest known asteroid, have revealed that the object may be a “mini-planet,” and may contain…
This view of the severely damaged Apollo 13 Service Module (SM) was photographed from the Lunar Module/Command Module (LM/CM) following…
Attired in Russian Sokol launch and entry suits, NASA astronaut and Expedition 16 commander Peggy A. Whitson, the station’s first…
A large tornado that cut a 66-kilometer (41-mile) swath of destruction across southern Indiana and northwestern Kentucky in the early…
NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of phytoplankton in bloom in Australia’s Shark Bay on November 6, 2004.
As part of the Project Fire study in 1962, technicians at NASA’s Langley Research Center ready materials to be subjected…
What lies at the bottom of Hyperion’s strange craters? Noone knows. To help find out, Cassini took this image, containing…
This Hubble Space Telescope image reveals an expanding shell of glowing gas surrounding a hot, massive star in our Milky…
An artist’s concept shows the Astro-E2 spacecraft, set to launch this month. A joint effort between NASA and the Japan…
