
The Global Hawk is a robotic plane that can fly autonomously to altitudes above 60,000 feet – twice as high…

The Expedition 24 crew aboard the International Space Station photographed the Twitchell Canyon Fire in central Utah on Sept. 20.…

In preparation for its last planned mission to the International Space Station, shuttle Discovery was lowered onto its external fuel…

The ChemCam instrument for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission uses a pulsed laser beam to vaporize a pinhead-size target, producing…

The ChemCam instrument for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission uses a pulsed laser beam to vaporize a pinhead-size target, producing…

The two main parts of the ChemCam laser instrument for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission are shown in this combined…