NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander monitors the atmosphere overhead and reaches out to the soil below in this artist’s depiction of…
These side-by-side false-color images show Saturn’s heat emission. The data were taken on Feb. 4, 2004, from the W. M.…
The Cassini team got this stunning false color image of Saturn’s rings using a technique called “stellar occultation.” In simple…
This false-color composite image of the Stephan’s Quintet galaxy cluster clearly shows one of the largest shock waves ever seen…
Backdropped by a cloud-covered part of Earth, Space Shuttle Atlantis was photographed by the Expedition 15 crew after it undocked…
This 1958 photograph shows test pilot Joseph Walker in a pressure suit beside the X-1E at the NASA High-Speed Flight…
Approximately 100 million years ago, a smaller galaxy plunged through the heart of the Cartwheel galaxy, creating ripples of brief…
This is the sharpest image of Saturn’s temperature emissions taken from the ground; it is a mosaic of 35 individual…
The U.S. Navy’s test of Vanguard rocket, along with its satellite payload, went hopelessly awry when the rocket failed to…
In this 1957 photograph, an unnamed NACA physicist studies alpha rays in a continuous cloud chamber. NACA, the National Advisory…
