For years, New York City's MTA has been giving away retired subway cars to be dumped at the bottom of the ocean
The $6 billion series of islands in Bahrain as seen by an Expedition 26 crew member aboard the International Space Station
Bowen, also a United States Navy submariner, is the first astronaut in history to fly on two consecutive shuttle missions
Surrounded by the blackness of space, Earth's thin blue line can be seen in the distance in this photo from the STS-133 crew
Designed by SOM, the station features a lattice roof designed to "seamlessly flow into the landscape of the surrounding park"
A new project documents scenes of death as seen through the materials that collect--however temporarily--our remains
After launching for the final time, Discovery docked with the International Space Station at 2:14 p.m. EST Saturday
With its six-member crew and a robot helper on board, Discovery left Earth for its 39th--and final--flight yesterday afternoon
Sitting on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Discovery is scheduled to take flight later this evening
Swirling shapes of ghostly blue-gray in this photograph, sea ice can form around Ostrov Shikotan in only a few days
An extreme close-up image released by NASA shows the large impact Rabe Crater on Mars' southern highlands
Hidden inside of the night sky's Big Dipper, NGC 2841 is seen here as captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
Accompanied by coronal mass ejections, the flares occur when the sun's magnetic field gets stretched to a breaking point
Holding only 74 passengers and 10 crew, the Boeing 314 was the pinnacle of luxury travel in the 1930s and '40s
The collision of two galaxies produces young stars that age quickly and explode, leaving behind massive black holes
Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to visit the International Space Station on the STS-133 mission beginning February 24
The remains of a star that went supernova thousands of years ago as captured by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
Measuring 122 feet tall, the chamber's immense size allows it to simulate the vacuum of space for testing crew vehicles
Named for two fallen soldiers, the effect occurs when hard sand particles strike the softer abrasion strips on rotor blades
It took several days of preparation and nearly 30 hours alone in a stationary position to produce this incredible image