The Soyuz launch pad is seen prior to the rollout of the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in…
Ring shadows line the face of distant Saturn, providing a backdrop for the brilliant, white sphere of Enceladus. This icy…
SOFIA’s 9-foot mirror is lowered into the cavity and attached to a structure sitting on a thin layer of oil…
About 4,000 light years from Earth lies RCW 108, a region where stars are actively forming within the Milky Way…
After completing its mission to re-supply the International Space Station, the European Space Agency’s Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)…
A welder at NASA’s Glenn Research Center (GRC) grinds welds on an Ares I-X rocket segment being readied for shipment…
Expedition 14 commander Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (left) and cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, flight engineer representing Russia’s Federal Space Agency, conduct pre-spacewalk…
Astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton works with equipment associated with servicing the Hubble Space Telescope during the fourth extravehicular activity on…
Backdropped against a massive wall of white clouds 130 nautical miles below, astronaut Mark C. Lee floats freely as he…
