This artist concept illustrates how a massive collision of objects perhaps as large as the planet Pluto smashed together to…
Carrying the Expedition 12 crew, a Soyuz TMA-7 that launched a few days earlier from the Baikinour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan…
Backdropped by the blackness of space, the Pirs docking compartment on the International Space Station was photographed by a crew…
Workers position the tail cone on the Space Shuttle Discovery in preparation for its return to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center…
Space Shuttle Discovery landed on runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility at 9:14 a.m. EDT on Monday,…
The Alps may be more famous, but the Pyrenees have been around much longer – tens of millions of years…
Space Shuttle Atlantis and the STS-117 crew returned home safely today, completing their 14-day mission to the International Space Station.…
The side of a crater surrounding the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at Meridiani Planum on Mars can be seen in…
When it was constructed in 1969, the Space Power Facility (SPF) was the world’s largest vacuum chamber. It stands more…
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds fly past Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in commemoration of NASA’s 50th…