Safely protected in its shipping crate, the telescope mirror assembly for NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, is…
This striking image of a mound within the area of a trough cutting into Mars’ north polar layered deposits was…
The STEREO (Ahead) spacecraft observed this visually stunning prominence eruption on Sept. 29, 2008, in the 304 angstrom wavelength of…
Forty years ago today, on Oct. 14, 1968, Apollo 7 transmitted the first live broadcast from a manned U.S. spacecraft.…
About 58 minutes before MESSENGER’s closest approach to Mercury on Oct. 6, 2008, its Narrow Angle Camera captured this close-up…
