Gullies at the Edge of Hale Crater, Mars

This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows gullies near the edge of Hale crater on…

The Heart of Darkness

Some of the coldest and darkest dust in space shines brightly in this infrared image from…

Mariner 10

On Nov. 3, 1973, the Mariner Venus/Mercury 1973 spacecraft, also known as Mariner 10, was launched…

NASA and Russian Space Agency Administrators Meet

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Left, and Head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Anatoly Perminov turn…

Soyuz Lifts Off

Carrying Expedition 21 flight engineers Jeffrey Williams and Maxim Suraev, as well as a spaceflight participant,…

Expedition 21 Lifts Off

The Soyuz TMA-16 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009, carrying…

Ready for Liftoff

The Soyuz rocket is seen shortly after arrival to the launch pad on Monday, Sept. 28,…

Rollout

Russian security officers walk along the railroad tracks as the Soyuz rocket is rolled out to…

Water Detected at High Latitudes on the Moon

NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, an instrument on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 mission, took this…

Robotic Lunar lander

Marshall Space Flight Center is testing a new robotic lunar lander test bed that will aid…