Backdropped by a sunset, the Canadarm2/Space Station Remote Manipulator System is operated by a crewmember performing mission duties from the…
Twins Zane (foreground) and Paxton Gunn gaze at the Ambassador of Exploration Award presented by NASA to veteran journalist Walter…
This Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) image was acquired on May 20, 2000, and shows an area…
On May 19, 2005, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim…
A shuttle model is magnetically suspended in the transparent hexagonal test section of the MIT/NASA Langley 6-inch Magnetic Suspension/Balance System…
Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with volcanoes that erupt massive volumes of silicate lava,…
Scientists report definitive evidence of the presence of lakes filled with liquid methane on Saturn’s moon Titan, based on the…
Coccolithophores are a group of phytoplankton that are identifiable from space. These microscopic plants armor themselves with external plates of…
Looking more like an alien landscape than an Earthly landscape, the Morenci open-pit copper mine in southeast Arizona is North…
