The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed images to date of the open star clusters NGC 265 (top)…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this “true color” mosaic of a small portion of the Orion Nebula, taken the Wide…
This artist’s concept illustrates the two types of spiral galaxies that populate our universe: those with plump middles, or central…
NASA’s International Sun-Earth Explorer C (ISEE C) was undergoing testing and evaluation inside Goddard’s dynamic test chamber when this photo…
A trio of astronauts from the Return to Flight crew train for their flight by floating in NASA’s famed KC-135…
A Saturn V rocket streaks toward space on the night of December 17, 1972, carrying the Apollo 17 crew, the…
Two spots of snow cover the peaks of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on the main island of Hawaii in…
As it rockets toward its July 1 entry into Saturn’s orbit, NASA’s Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is capturing some stunning views of…
The Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades, seem to float on a bed of feathers in a new infrared…
STS-120 mission specialist Doug Wheelock participated in the third scheduled spacewalk as construction continued on the International Space Station. During…
