The Hubble Space Telescope’s latest image of the star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of…
Robert Goddard, a pioneer in rocket development, received patents for a multi-stage rocket and liquid propellants in 1914 and published…
In 2002, NASA produced the Blue Marble, the most detailed true-color image of the Earth’s surface ever produced. Using data…
Somewhat of a different angle showing shuttle Discovery’s vertical stabilizer and some of the cargo in the payload bay was…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, then known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, launches from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station…
Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean climbs down the lunar module Intrepid, joining Pete Conrad on the moon, November 19, 1969.
How can something as big as a star go undetected? The answer is dust. Stellar nursery DR21 is shrouded in…
Cassini peers around the hazy limb of the frigid moon Titan to spy the sunlit south pole of Saturn in…
A Boeing Delta II rocket, left, fires its engines on Saturday, Nov. 20, sending NASA’s Swift satellite into orbit from…
Roll-out of the Progress 24 vehicle occurred on schedule at 7:00 a.m., Jan. 16, 2007 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.…
