George Washington not only served as the namesake for the capital city of the United States, he also chose its…
Astronomers were surprised to discover a 25-million-year-old protoplanetary disk around a pair of red dwarf stars 350 light-years away in…
This 1965 photograph of the lunar landscape shows a model made using a technique developed by Dr. Eugene M. Shoemaker…
Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxies, containing a vast number of…
Space Shuttle Discovery lands at Edwards Air Force Base at 8:12 a.m. EDT on August 9 after spending nearly two…
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin watches the solid rocket booster separation from firing room four during the launch of the Space…
A Russian Soyuz rocket rumbles toward the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for tonight’s launch to the…
NASA continues its steady progress toward Return to Flight with a key milestone at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.…
What’s happening on Jupiter’s moon Io? Two sulfurous eruptions are visible on Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io in this color composite…
