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Collision Forms Rings Around Vega
Collision Forms Rings Around Vega

This artist concept illustrates how a massive collision of objects perhaps as large as the planet Pluto smashed together to…

Soyuz Approaches the Space Station
Soyuz Approaches the Space Station

Carrying the Expedition 12 crew, a Soyuz TMA-7 that launched a few days earlier from the Baikinour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan…

Docking in Space
Docking in Space

Backdropped by the blackness of space, the Pirs docking compartment on the International Space Station was photographed by a crew…

Preparing for Homecoming
Preparing for Homecoming

Workers position the tail cone on the Space Shuttle Discovery in preparation for its return to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center…

Home Again
Home Again

Space Shuttle Discovery landed on runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility at 9:14 a.m. EDT on Monday,…

Central Pyrenees
Central Pyrenees

The Alps may be more famous, but the Pyrenees have been around much longer – tens of millions of years…

Homecoming for STS-117
Homecoming for STS-117

Space Shuttle Atlantis and the STS-117 crew returned home safely today, completing their 14-day mission to the International Space Station.…

Postcard from a Martian Crater
Postcard from a Martian Crater

The side of a crater surrounding the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at Meridiani Planum on Mars can be seen in…

The Space Power Facility
The Space Power Facility

When it was constructed in 1969, the Space Power Facility (SPF) was the world’s largest vacuum chamber. It stands more…

Thunderbirds and Endeavour
Thunderbirds and Endeavour

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds fly past Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in commemoration of NASA’s 50th…