The shadow of the moon falls on Earth as seen from the International Space Station, 230 miles above the planet,…
Intricate wisps of glowing gas float amid a myriad of stars in this image created by combining data from NASA’s…
Astronaut Jim Reilly, an STS-117 mission specialist, participated in the mission’s first planned session of extravehicular activity (EVA), as construction…
Fifty years ago today on Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, humanity’s first artificial satellite, thereby ushering in…
This specially processed composite view reveals a tremendous amount of structure in the northern polar atmosphere of Titan. The hazes…
Just 10 days after a major earthquake struck the region and left roughly 340,000 people homeless, Mount Merapi erupted, on…
This photograph from 1966 shows the Zero Gravity Facility at Lewis Research Center, now known as John H. Glenn Research…
This 1987 image shows scientists testing a model aircraft in the Langley Research Center’s Spin Tunnel. Some aircraft use parachutes…
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found an iron meteorite on Mars, the first meteorite of any type ever identified…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took this true color mosaic of Jupiter, the most detailed global color portrait of the planet ever…
