
On Dec. 14, 1962, NASA’s Mariner 2 spacecraft sailed close to the shrouded planet Venus, marking the first time any…

Employees at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., unpack four large metal rings that will be used to…

Michael Hale, a quality assurance inspector with the Space Systems Department at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.,…

Stars are sometimes born in the midst of chaos. About 3 million years ago in the nearby galaxy M33, a…

This image shows Sally Ride, America’s first woman in space, who was also part of NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior…