Space Shuttle Discovery landed on runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility at 9:14 a.m. EDT on Monday,…
The Alps may be more famous, but the Pyrenees have been around much longer – tens of millions of years…
Space Shuttle Atlantis and the STS-117 crew returned home safely today, completing their 14-day mission to the International Space Station.…
The side of a crater surrounding the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at Meridiani Planum on Mars can be seen in…
When it was constructed in 1969, the Space Power Facility (SPF) was the world’s largest vacuum chamber. It stands more…
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds fly past Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in commemoration of NASA’s 50th…
Cassini conducts its first close flyby of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus (en-SELL-uh-duss) at a distance of approximately 1,180 kilometers (730…
NASA and the Russian space agency kicked off a new era in international space cooperation in June of 1995, when…
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows the diverse collection of galaxies 450 million light-years away in cluster Abell…
The Space Shuttle Discovery hitched a ride on NASA’s modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft for the flight from the…