This 1987 image shows scientists testing a model aircraft in the Langley Research Center’s Spin Tunnel. Some aircraft use parachutes…
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found an iron meteorite on Mars, the first meteorite of any type ever identified…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took this true color mosaic of Jupiter, the most detailed global color portrait of the planet ever…
The Aleutian Islands and the Alaskan peninsula are shown in this image acquired by the MODIS on the Terra satellite,…
With a fiery liftoff, Space Shuttle Atlantis roars off the launch pad for a rendezvous with the International Space Station…
This artist’s concept depicts a pulsar, which is a type of dead star, as well as the surrounding disk of…
Launched on Dec. 2, 2005, SOHO observes the sun’s deep interior and also its interactions all the way out to…
In this, the first extravehicular activity, or spacewalk, of the STS-116 mission, astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, Jr. participates in activities…
Technician Durwood Dereng prepares to pull the external-power plug from an E17 drag-research model at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on…
Astronaut Sunita L. Williams, Expedition 14 flight engineer, used a pistol grip tool as she worked on the International Space…
