Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida is illuminated by a Falcon 9 rocket as...
Day: January 20, 2015
On May 23, 2014, Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson posted this photograph -- taken from the International Space Station --...
Saturn's north polar hexagon basks in the Sun's light now that spring has come to the northern hemisphere. Many smaller...
Technicians and engineers at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California mate the Pegasus XL rocket with the Interface Region Imaging...
Jets generated by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies can transport huge amounts of energy across great distances....
A Japanese H-IIA rocket carrying the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory rolls out to...
The American flag patch pictured here is from the left arm on Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 suit. This image was...
A stream of plasma burst out from the sun, but since it lacked enough force to break away, most of...
In northwest Australia, the Great Sandy Desert holds great geological interest as a zone of active sand dune movement. While...
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, Expedition 36 flight engineer, uses a digital still camera during a session of extravehicular activity (EVA)...
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft launches from the Cape...
A powerful storm passed over New Zealand’s South Island in March 2014 and brought gale-force winds, torrential rains, and flooding...
The Helios-A solar probe launched on Dec. 10, 1974 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. As it looped around...
Expedition 40 Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency posted this photograph of windswept valleys in Northern Africa,...
NASA's remotely piloted X-48C hybrid-wing-body subscale aircraft, which demonstrates technology concepts for cleaner and quieter commercial air travel, completed an...
A crane lifts NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility on Aug. 3,...
This image shows a composite view of the Crab nebula, an iconic supernova remnant in our Milky Way galaxy, as...
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