Author: NASA Image of the Day

The Global Hawk is a robotic plane that can fly autonomously to altitudes above 60,000 feet…

The Expedition 24 crew aboard the International Space Station photographed the Twitchell Canyon Fire in central…

In preparation for its last planned mission to the International Space Station, shuttle Discovery was lowered…

In the cold vacuum of space, radiation from massive stars carves away at cold molecular clouds,…

A last quarter crescent moon above Earth's horizon is featured in this image photographed by the…

This high forward oblique view of Rima Ariadaeus on the moon was photographed by the Apollo…

Located about 5,000 light years from Earth, this composite image shows the Rosette star formation region.…

Giant planet GJ 436b in the constellation Leo is missing something--and that something is swamp gas.…

NASA's Desert RATS, or Research and Technology Studies, team made its 13th trip to the desert…

Dr. Werhner von Braun, Marshall Space Flight Center's first director, points out a detail regarding the…