An engineer and a technician check out an ion engine in the Electronic Propulsion Research Building at the Lewis Research…
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recently stopped to analyze an exposure of rock near “Beagle Crater,” on a target nicknamed…
Like a butterfly, a white dwarf star begins its life by casting off the cocoon that enclosed it. In the…
A space suit floats freely away from the International Space Station in a scene reminiscent of a sci-fi movie. But…
Mimas drifts along in its orbit against the azure backdrop of Saturn’s northern latitudes in this true color view from…
his is the first color image of Mars taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. It…
This composite image shows the Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum face of Mars, picturing the last days of the Mars’ northern autumn/southern spring.…
The latest remote sensing data from NASA’s Jason satellite show near normal conditions across the equatorial Pacific Ocean. As we…
Astronaut Dave Williams, representing the Canadian Space Agency, participates in the last of four STS-118 spacewalks.
NASA began development of new communication satellites in 1960, based on the hypothesis that geosynchronous satellites, which orbit Earth 22,300…