As it rockets toward its July 1 entry into Saturn’s orbit, NASA’s Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is capturing some stunning views of…
The Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades, seem to float on a bed of feathers in a new infrared…
STS-120 mission specialist Doug Wheelock participated in the third scheduled spacewalk as construction continued on the International Space Station. During…
The shadow of the moon falls on Earth as seen from the International Space Station, 230 miles above the planet,…
Intricate wisps of glowing gas float amid a myriad of stars in this image created by combining data from NASA’s…
Astronaut Jim Reilly, an STS-117 mission specialist, participated in the mission’s first planned session of extravehicular activity (EVA), as construction…
Fifty years ago today on Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, humanity’s first artificial satellite, thereby ushering in…
This specially processed composite view reveals a tremendous amount of structure in the northern polar atmosphere of Titan. The hazes…
Just 10 days after a major earthquake struck the region and left roughly 340,000 people homeless, Mount Merapi erupted, on…
This photograph from 1966 shows the Zero Gravity Facility at Lewis Research Center, now known as John H. Glenn Research…
