NASA engineer and test pilot Bruce Peterson (right) discusses the M2-F2 Lifting Body airplane with actor James Doohan, who played…
Dust makes this cosmic eye look red. This eerie Spitzer Space Telescope image shows infrared radiation from the well-studied Helix…
The Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco formed as a result of the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates about…
This photo by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls has been honored by United Press International as one of the top pictures…
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) gets a high-speed workout by astronaut John W. Young in the “Grand Prix” run during…
This delightfully detailed false color image of Saturn is a combination of three images taken in January 1998 by the…
STS-116 Commander Mark Polansky (center) says a few words for the media following the landing of Discovery at the Kennedy…
Expedition 16 commander Peggy Whitson, Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko and spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor blasted off from the Baikonur…
Dark and sharply defined ring shadows appear to constrict the flow of color from Saturn’s warmly hued south to the…
The equinox is an astronomical event that marks the first day of autumn in the northern hemisphere and spring in…