Astronaut Piers J. Sellers works on the shuttle’s Remote Manipulator System/Orbiter Boom Sensor System during the mission’s first scheduled session…
The tongue of the Malaspina Glacier, the largest glacier in Alaska, fills most of this image. The Malaspina lies west…
Birds don’t fly this high. Airplanes don’t go this fast. The Statue of Liberty weighs less. No species other than…
In this September 2000 image, NEAR Shoemaker’s then-current 100-kilometer (62-mile) orbit gave it a bird’s eye view of the asteroid…
There is no permanent human base on South Georgia Island, a British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean that lies…
This 1992 image is one in a series of remarkable photos documenting the daily lives of two of Kennedy Space…
“Yes, I have been to Barsoom again …” begins John Carter in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ 1913 science fiction classic “The…
About 1,600 light-years away, in a binary star system fondly known as J0806, two dense white dwarf stars orbit each…
The Crab Nebula is the shattered remnant of a massive star that ended its life in a supernova explosion. Nearly…
On March 29, 2007, the Shiveluch Volcano on the Russian Federation’s Kamchatka Peninsula erupted, sending an ash cloud skyward roughly…
