Westerlund 2, a young star cluster with an estimated age of about one or two million years, is the subject…
Numerous well-known landmarks appear in this detailed view of London taken from the International Space Station on April 5, 2005.…
Astronaut Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper, STS-115 mission specialist, took this self-portrait . The mission specialist had just unstowed the forward Solar…
This 1964 photograph shows a full scale model of the HL-10 lifting body mounted in the Full Scale Tunnel at…
What do auroras look like from space? From the ground, auroras dance high above clouds, frequently causing spectacular displays. The…
It was “installation day” on the International Space Station. The Atlantis and Expedition 13 crews worked on attaching the P3/P4…
What kind of cloud is that? It’s the drifting smoke plume that resulted from the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis.…
This artist’s rendering is of the Stardust capsule returning to Earth. The Stardust spacecraft is slated to return on January…
Astronaut Rick Mastracchio, STS-118 mission specialist, participates in the mission’s third planned spacewalk or extravehicular activity (EVA) on Aug. 15,…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope observed a fledgling solar system, like the one depicted in this artist’s concept, and discovered deep…
