Hubble Sees Starbursts in the Wake of a Fleeting Romance

This image from NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope shows galaxy NGC 4485 in the constellation of Canes…

Expedition 39 Landing

A sokol suit helmet can be seen against the window of the Soyuz TMA-11M capsule shortly…

Expedition 39 Soyuz Landing

Expedition 39 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA is helped out of the Soyuz capsule just…

ACCESS II: Preparing to Descend

This photo, taken from the CT-133 aircraft of research partner National Research Council of Canada, shows…

Wonders in the Antarctic Sky

In 43 hours across five science flights in late November 2013, NASA's P-3 research aircraft collected…

Spacewalk Training at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory

In this image taken on Nov. 7, 2012, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and European Space Agency…

Saturn’s C and B Rings From the Inside Out

On July 1, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn, marking the end of the spacecraft's…

Inside the Flame Nebula

Stars are often born in clusters, in giant clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers have studied…

Earth’s Atmospheric Layers

International Space Station astronauts captured this photo of Earth's atmospheric layers on July 31, 2011, revealing…

View of the Earth From the Freedom 7 Mercury Capsule

On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. had a view of Earth that no…