On July 1, 1976, President Gerald Ford attended the opening ceremony for the National Air and Space Museum. During the…
One of the final “dry runs” found the Expedition 1 crew members training for their upcoming mission, about a week-and-half…
The same weather system that brought snow and ice to the American Midwest just after Thanksgiving 2005 also kicked up…
Images from the Hubble space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory combine to make this composite of N49,…
This composite image shows Z Camelopardalis, or Z Cam, a double-star system. The Z Cam system features a collapsed, dead…
The image above reveals sharp boundaries between dark and light regions on the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan. The photo,…
Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth’s horizon, the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Atlantis move farther apart…
Discovery’s cargo bay over Earth’s horizon was photographed by one of the seven STS-114 crew members as the Shuttle approached…
Space shuttle Discovery leaps from its launch pad on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007, to begin the STS-120 mission to the…
This stunning false-color view of Saturn’s moon Hyperion reveals crisp details across the strange, tumbling moon’s surface. Differences in color…
