Lagoons of New Caledonia

In 2008, UNESCO added the Lagoons of New Caledonia to the World Heritage Site list. The…

Rhapsody in Black

This silhouette of Saturn was taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Feb. 13, 2010. Although the…

Preparing for the Shuttle Mission

The NASA Railroad transported the last space shuttle solid rocket booster segments over the Indian River…

X-51A Makes Longest Scramjet Flight

The X-51A successfully made the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered hypersonic flight to date off the southern…

Expedition 23 Returns to Earth

The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov and…

Stellar Shrapnel

This composite image shows N49, the aftermath of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud.…

On Guard

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an adult osprey guards its young in a nest…

ISS Transits the Sun

Thilo Kranz, a staff member at DLR, the German Space Agency, took this image of the…

Homecoming for Atlantis

Space shuttle Atlantis' main gear touched down on Runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at…

The Blackness of Space

Spacewalker Michael Good, barely visible in his white spacesuit against the station, participated in the STS-132…