Stars are sometimes born in the midst of chaos. About 3 million years ago in the…
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One Week from Expedition 34 Launch
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 34 Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA conducts a…
First Apollo 17 Moonwalk
Forty years ago today on Dec. 11, 1972, astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander, makes a short…
Helios-A Solar Probe At Launch Complex
The Helios-A solar probe launched on Dec. 10, 1974 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.…
Apollo 17 Launch
The 363-feet tall Apollo 17 (Spacecraft 114/Lunar Module 12/Saturn 512) space vehicle is launched from Pad…
GRAIL’s Gravity Tour of the Moon
This image shows the variations in the lunar gravity field as measured by NASA's Gravity Recovery…
The Sun’s Innermost Atmosphere
This combined image from Nov. 8-9, 2012, shows the sun's innermost atmosphere as seen by the…
Earth at Night
This new global view of Earth's city lights is a composite assembled from data acquired by…
Super Typhoon Bopha
This still image of Super Typhoon Bopha was taken by Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford on…
Tiny Tethys
Tethys may not be tiny by normal standards, but when it is captured alongside Saturn, it…