The Milky Way and other galaxies in the universe harbor many young star clusters and associations…
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100th Test Flight
The Boeing X-48 Blended Wing Body subscale research aircraft made its 100th flight in late October…
Election Day 2012
The American flag patch pictured here is from the left arm on Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11…
Penguin Beach
Members of the IceBridge team visited a colony of Magellanic penguins near Punta Arenas on a…
Twelve Years and Counting Aboard the ISS
Twelve years ago, Bill Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev made history by becoming the first…
One Giant Scoop for Mankind
This image shows a "bite mark" where NASA's Curiosity rover scooped up some Martian soil. The…
A Ghost in Cepheus
Described as a "dusty curtain" or "ghostly apparition," mysterious reflection nebula VdB 152 really is very…
Astronaut Kevin Ford in Destiny Lab
On Oct. 26, 2012, NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, Expedition 33 flight engineer, smiles for a photo…
Dragon in its Nest
A Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 3:22 p.m.…
Sandy Makes Landfall Over Cuba
Early in the morning on Oct. 25, 2012, the Suomi NPP satellite passed over Hurricane Sandy…