Testing for the Future

The Lunar Electric Rover (LER) is being tested at NASA Johnson Space Center's planetary analog test…

Glint in the Cat’s Eye

This image of the Cat's Eye Nebula was made by combining data from two of NASA's…

Preparing for Flight

Technicians carefully position an Orion flight test crew module to be airlifted from NASA's Dryden Flight…

Spirit’s View From ‘Troy’

Today, Aug. 18, 2009, marks the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's 2,000th sol, or Martian day, on…

Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment Launches

A successful NASA flight test on Monday, Aug. 17, demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth…

Lunar Lander Model

This 1963 model depicts an early Apollo lunar lander concept, called a "bug." Engineers designed several…

Ares I-X Complete

Standing tall at its fully assembled height of 327 feet, the Ares I-X is one of…

The Formation of Stars

Cepheus B, a molecular cloud located in our Milky Galaxy about 2,400 light years from the…

Unraveling Saturn’s Rings

In this simulated image of Saturn's rings, color is used to present information about ring particle…

Coiled Creature

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a wild creature of the dark -- a coiled galaxy…