Space shuttle Atlantis soars to orbit from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in…
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Ready for Liftoff
A family of Osprey are seen outside the NASA Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building in…
Atlantis Lifts Off
Space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida…
Runaway Star
A heavy runaway star is rushing away from a nearby stellar nursery at more than 250,000…
American, Indonesian Students Link Hands Via Distance Learning
A dozen Indonesian students gathered at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta (at left in the split-screen…
Menkhib and the California Nebula
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, features one of the bright stars in the constellation…
Hellas Planitia
This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter…
Assembly Line of Stars
The constellation Vulpecula is a veritable entire assembly line of newborn stars. The diffuse glow reveals…
Freedom 7
On May 5, 1961, at 9:34am EST NASA astronaut Alan Shepard launched about his Mercury Redstone…
Eyjafjallajökull Volcano in Infrared
On Sat., April 17, 2010, the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) instrument aboard NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1)…