Space Shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven astronauts lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, beginning the STS-116 mission…
As seen through windows on the aft flight deck of Space Shuttle Discovery, the payload bay is featured in this…
The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) took this 2-millisecond exposure of Jupiter at 04:41:04 UTC on Jan. 24,…
On February 19, 2000, Space Shuttle Endeavour passed over the highly active and dangerous volcanic zone of the Andes in…
Water leaves its mark on the land, cutting channels and canyons where rivers flowed and leaving depressions where lakes once…
This artist’s concept illustrates one possible answer to the puzzle of the “giant galactic blobs.” These blobs (red), first identified…
Like dust bunnies that lurk in corners and under beds, surprisingly complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden…
Apollo 17 mission commander Eugene A. Cernan makes a short checkout of the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the early part…
NASA’s Galileo spacecraft captured this dramatic image of mountains on Jupiter’s moon Io in February 2000. The image was taken…
This 1961 prototype of an inflatable space station concept with a solar power system collector was 24 feet in diameter…
