Researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center conduct studies in 1964 to determine the types of difficulties astronauts might encounter on…
This computer generated image depicts a view of Earth as seen from the surface of the asteroid Toutatis on Nov.…
This view of Tibet’s Brahmaputra River was taken on Oct. 13, 2000, by the Expedition 3 crew. This Asian river…
The Cassini spacecraft captured this spectacular view of a landslide on Saturn’s moon, Iapetus. Landslides are common geological phenomena on…
STS-121 mission specialist Piers J. Sellers, wearing a training version of the space suit used for extravehicular activity (EVA), participates…
These are some of the first pictures returned by the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe during its successful descent and…
Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., commander of the first manned Skylab mission, goes through a checklist of experiment activity during Skylab…
This Cassini image is a color map of the composition of a portion of Saturn’s moon Hyperion. In this map,…
Twenty million years ago ocean covered the area where Panama is today, creating a gap between the continents of North…
This artist’s concept depicts a distant hypothetical solar system, similar in age to our own. Looking inward from the system’s…
