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)…

Visions of Future Past

The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is the subject of this long exposure, and is seen as it…

Stellar Nursery in the Rosette Nebula

This image from the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory shows the cloud associated with the…

Guenter Wendt and the Apollo 11 Crew

Within the White Room atop the gantry on Launch Complex 39 Pad A, the Apollo 11…

Double Trouble in Twin Black Holes

This image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the central region of the starburst galaxy M82…

Building Planets

This artist's animation illustrates a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age…