Loops of highly charged particles burst from the sun’s surface in this image, taken on Dec. 4, 2006. Among the…
The city of Seoul (originally known as Hanyang) has been the capital of Korea for more than 600 years and…
This majestic view, taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, tells an untold story of life and death in the Eagle…
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…