Astronaut Jim Reilly (on robot arm) joins forces with his colleagues inside the shuttle and station, as well as flight…
The Escondida copper, gold and silver open-pit mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert is seen in this image from the Advanced…
This artist’s concept shows a supermassive black hole at the center of a remote galaxy digesting the remnants of a…
On September 8, 1969, a transporter carried the 363-foot-high Apollo 12 Saturn V space vehicle from the Vehicle Assembly Building’s…
NASA scientists announced today, March 2, 2004, that evidence found by the Opportunity rover suggests water once flowed at its…
In this artist’s conception, a possible newfound planet spins through a clearing, detected around the star CoKu Tau 4 by…
Scientists recently discovered that polar stratospheric clouds, long known to play an important role in Antarctic ozone destruction, are occurring…
During its tenure aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 13 passed a major milestone: as of late August 2006, more…
A new chapter in space flight began on July 1950 with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral,…
Har Nuur, or the Black Lake, is located in western Mongolia’s Valley of Lakes, part of a system of closed…