From the site: One of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the International Space Station, some 240 miles above Earth, used a 50mm len...

From NASA's Image of the Day Gallery Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar sur...

Today, our sun reaches its northernmost point in planet Earth's sky. Called a solstice, the date traditionally marks a change of seasons...

Space shuttle Discovery gets prepped for flight—in just under four minutes.

From NASA's Image of the Day Gallery This composite image shows N49, the aftermath of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Clou...

From NASA's Image of the Day Gallery Anchored to the Canadarm2 mobile foot restraint, Garrett Reisman performed construction and mainten...

From the NASA Image of the Day Gallery Space shuttle Discovery's engines ignited at 6:21 a.m. EDT Monday, April 5, for liftoff of the ST...

From: NASA With landing gear down, space shuttle Endeavour approaches the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Flo...

In a very unique setting over Earth's colorful horizon, the silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour is featured in this photo by an Ex...

On Launch Pad 39A The space shuttle Endeavour is seen after the rotating service structure is rolled back on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010 at Launc...

Galaxy Cluster Has Two 'Tails' to Tell Two spectacular tails of X-ray emission have been seen trailing behind a galaxy using the Cha...

From the NASA website: With its suite of science instruments, Juno will investigate the existence of a solid planetary core, map Jupiter...

Regular visitors to this blog know I like to post the best of the NASA photos I get daily in my Google reader. Today's photo isn't ...

From the NASA website : During its mission, the Galileo spacecraft returned a number of images of Earth's only natural satellite. Galile...

Backdropped by the blackness of space, a partial view of Space Shuttle Atlantis' payload bay, vertical stabilizer, orbital maneuvering s...

Awaiting the Mission Space shuttle Atlantis is seen on Launch Pad 39a of the NASA Kennedy Space Center shortly after the rotating service st...

From NASA : In a break from its usual task of searching for distant cosmic explosions, NASA's Swift satellite acquired the highest-resol...

From NASA : This image of NGC 6240 contains new X-ray data from Chandra (shown in red, orange, and yellow) that has been combined with an op...

From NASA : Some of the coldest and darkest dust in space shines brightly in this infrared image from the Herschel Observatory, a European S...

The space shuttle Discovery, piggyback atop a specially modified 747, makes a stop in Amarillo to refuel the plane carrying it. Video at Ama...