The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket is seen as it launches from Pad-0A of the Mid-Atlantic…
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Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color
Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new,…
Preparing Solar Satellite for Launch
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – Technicians work on the payload fairing that will protect NASA's Interface Region…
Baffin Island, Davis Strait
IceBridge closed out the fourth week of its Arctic campaign with a flight over the striking…
X-48 Project Completes Flight Research
NASA's remotely piloted X-48C hybrid-wing-body subscale aircraft, which demonstrates technology concepts for cleaner and quieter commercial…
Hubble Catches Dusty Detail
The soft glow in this image is NGC 2768, an elliptical galaxy located in the northern…
First Shuttle Launch
A new era in space flight began on April 12, 1981, when Space Shuttle Columbia, or…
Artist’s Concept of a Solar Electric Propulsion System
Using advanced Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) technologies is an essential part of future missions into deep…
Solar Array on the International Space Station
(3 April 2013) --- This close-up picture of a Zvezda Service Module array, reflecting bright rays…
Sun’s Quiet Corona
This image taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument at 171 Angstrom…