
Several NASA science aircraft, including (from bottom) the SOFIA observatory, the DC-8 airborne laboratory and an ER-2 high-altitude aircraft, along…

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its navigation camera to take the images that have been combined into this 180-degree…

Where Kepler Sees

Kepler’s Diamond Mine of Stars

Cluster of Stars in Kepler’s Sight

Host to ‘Hot Jupiter’ (labeled)

Host to ‘Hot Jupiter’

Kepler Eyes Cluster and Known Planet

The parachute for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) passed flight-qualification after testing in March and April 2009 inside the world’s…