At 5:20 am EDT on Mar. 29, 2011, MESSENGER captured this historic image of Mercury. This…
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Make a Wish From Space
In honor of those affected by the Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake in Japan, Russian cosmonaut and Expedition 27…
Imagining Mars
This composite of three artists' renderings from 1975 was only wish fulfillment for an unnamed JPL…
Einstein’s Theory Fights Off Challengers
Two new studies have put Einstein's General Theory of Relativity to the test like never before,…
Light Show
A grand ringed planet, Saturn is one of the most intriguing bodies orbiting our sun. This…
Disappearing Act
This swirling landscape of stars is known as the North America Nebula. In visible light, the…
Super Perigee Moon
The full moon is seen as it rises near the Lincoln Memorial, Saturday, March 19, 2011,…
WISE’s Last Light
On the morning of Feb. 1, 2011, WISE, or the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, took its…
Kennedy Employees Form Human Shuttle
Thousands of NASA Kennedy Space Center employees stand side-by-side to form a full-scale outline of a…
Celebrating Mercury Orbit
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left, shakes hands with Eric Finnegan, MESSENGER Mission Systems Engineer, right, as…