On August 15, 2013, at the Naval Station Norfolk near NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia,…
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Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center
The Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center celebrates its 50th anniversary this month.…
Dwarf Galaxy Caught Ramming Into a Large Spiral Galaxy
Observations with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed a massive cloud of multimillion-degree gas in a…
Suborbital Rocket Launches From NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility
A Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital rocket carrying experiments developed by university students nationwide in the RockSat-X program…
Dropping in on a James Webb Space Telescope Clean Room Test
A crane in a clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., lowers…
Perseid Meteor
This Perseid fireball meteor was observed in the skies over Chickamauga, Ga., on Aug. 11, 2013,…
Robotics Workstation in the International Space Station’s Cupola
At the robotics workstation in the International Space Station’s Cupola, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, Expedition 36…
Hubble Space Telescope Finds Source of Magellanic Stream
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the…
NASA’s Next Mars Mission Arrives at Kennedy Space Center for Launch Processing
A crane lifts NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing…
Celebrating Curiosity’s Landing
The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team in the MSL Mission Support Area reacts after learning that…