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…
Planetary nebula NGC 2440 has an intriguing bow-tie shape in this stunning view from space. The nebula is composed of…
The Delta II rocket that carried the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit sat ready for launch at Kennedy Space Center in…
This artist’s concept of the proposed Mars Sample Return mission shows the entry, descent and landing sequence that the lander…
A promontory nicknamed Cape Verde can be seen jutting out from the walls of Victoria Crater in this false-color image…
Resembling an aerial fireworks explosion, this dramatic image of the energetic star WR124, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals…
Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth’s horizon, the updated International Space Station is seen from Discovery as the…
With the Atlantic Ocean as a backdrop, an Atlas V launch vehicle, 19 stories tall, with a two-ton Mars Reconnaissance…
Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center test a model of the Shooting Star Experiment (SSE), designed to develop and…
