Birds don’t fly this high. Airplanes don’t go this fast. The Statue of Liberty weighs less. No species other than…
In this September 2000 image, NEAR Shoemaker’s then-current 100-kilometer (62-mile) orbit gave it a bird’s eye view of the asteroid…
There is no permanent human base on South Georgia Island, a British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean that lies…
This 1992 image is one in a series of remarkable photos documenting the daily lives of two of Kennedy Space…
“Yes, I have been to Barsoom again …” begins John Carter in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ 1913 science fiction classic “The…
About 1,600 light-years away, in a binary star system fondly known as J0806, two dense white dwarf stars orbit each…
The Crab Nebula is the shattered remnant of a massive star that ended its life in a supernova explosion. Nearly…
On March 29, 2007, the Shiveluch Volcano on the Russian Federation’s Kamchatka Peninsula erupted, sending an ash cloud skyward roughly…
This view inside of the Italian-built Harmony Node 2 was taken soon after its arrival at Kennedy Space Center. The…
Was Saturn’s moon, Phoebe, once a comet? Images from Cassini, taken when the spacecraft entered the neighborhood of Saturn, indicate…