A mere 6,000 light-years distant and sailing through the constellation Vela, star cluster RCW 38 is full of powerful stars.…
Scientists who study dust storms have long known that Saharan dust can travel across the Atlantic to the Americas. Asian…
The Plane of the Ecliptic is illustrated in this Clementine star tracker camera image which reveals (from right to left)…
As space shuttle Endeavour raced into space to begin the STS-123 mission, an amateur photographer captured this view from the…
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.
