This close-up view of the X-38 crew return vehicle under the wing of NASA’s B-52 mothership prior to launch of…
Nearly two weeks after landing in Gusev Crater, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has rolled off of its lander and…
The four principal HL-10 pilots are seen here with the lifting body aircraft. From left to right, they are Air…
Awkward and angular looking, Apollo 17’s lunar module Challenger was designed for flight in the vacuum of space. This picture,…
This false color image of Saturn’s moon Mimas reveals variation in the composition and texture across its surface. During its…
In this 3-D perspective view looking north over Death Valley, California, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER),…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured a glowing stellar nursery within a dark globule that reveals the birth of new protostars,…
This artist’s concept shows a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our…
In low Earth orbit there is not enough atmosphere to diffuse and scatter sunlight, so shadows are black and the…
Russian technicians work on the Zvezda Service Module shortly after it completed a pressurization test on Sept. 12 1997. The…
