On July 4, 1997, Americans got more than a fireworks show, with NASA’s first successful trip back to the surface…
Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria, Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi landed safely southwest of Karaganda, Kazakhstan…
A NASA satellite has captured the first occurrence of mysterious shiny polar clouds that form 50 miles above Earth’s surface.…
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed images to date of the open star clusters NGC 265 (top)…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this “true color” mosaic of a small portion of the Orion Nebula, taken the Wide…
This artist’s concept illustrates the two types of spiral galaxies that populate our universe: those with plump middles, or central…
NASA’s International Sun-Earth Explorer C (ISEE C) was undergoing testing and evaluation inside Goddard’s dynamic test chamber when this photo…
A trio of astronauts from the Return to Flight crew train for their flight by floating in NASA’s famed KC-135…
A Saturn V rocket streaks toward space on the night of December 17, 1972, carrying the Apollo 17 crew, the…
Two spots of snow cover the peaks of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on the main island of Hawaii in…
