The Shuttle Discovery, along with its External Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters, begins the long roll towards Launch Pad 39B…
Like cascading snowflakes in the interstellar night, the strange shapes and textures of the stars in the Snowflake Cluster abound…
The Franz Joseph Strauss, or Munich, International Airport served 29 million passengers in 2005, making it Germany’s second-busiest airport. The…
Infant stars glow gloriously in this infrared image of the Serpens Constellation’s star-forming region, located approximately 8484 light-years away. Glowing…
Saturn’s fascinating meteorology manifests itself as a “string of pearls” formation, spanning more than 60,000 kilometers (37,000 miles). Seen in…
This glimpse of the Tibetan Lake Country north of Katmandu and west of Ihasa was photographed from by Gordon Cooper…
This artist’s concept of a gas giant planet orbiting a red dwarf K star shows a planet has not been…
Even with a good telescope you won’t come across a sight quite like this one. It is a familiar object…
Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968: Mission commander Frank Borman, command module pilot James Lovell and lunar module pilot William Anders…
Resembling a work of modern art, variegated green crop circles cover what was once shortgrass prairie in southwestern Kansas. The…
