A photograph taken from the Takaharu Town Office shows lightning originating from the volcano's central crater
Antares reflects a brilliant flare from the sun, described by NASA's astronauts as having a jewel-like appearance
The workhoure of NASA's prized fleet, Challenger flew 85 percent of all Space Shuttle missions in 1983 and 1984
New photographs were taken by the Mars Express probe when it passed within 66 miles of the planet's surface
Paul DesJardin "wanted to model the 'instability dynamics' of a fire plume to gain insight into erratic heat transfers"
This guy, at the Edwardian Ball in San Francisco this past weekend, sure knows how to make a splash at a party
At 35,200 times smaller than its standard-sized counterpart, David Smith's five-car train set is no bigger than a coin
Constructed more than 25 years ago, Space Shuttle Atlantis will be decommissioned after one final flight to the ISS
Captured with five different exposures and filters, this image of a huge star-making factory pulses with energy
The CASTOR has been used to transport nuclear waste between France and Germany for the past 15 years
Seen by the Hubble Space Telescope, the Whirlpool Galaxy's narrow lanes of dust spiral into its core
Taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, this photograph shows one of Saturn's moons from 37,000 miles away
Scanning Electron Microscopes can highlight incredibly small details by magnifying objects by up to one million times
Astronomer Karl Gebhardt and his team measured the speed of moving stars to find the mass of nearby galaxy M87
Replacing a 1950s map still used by astronomers, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey took a dozen years to assemble
Captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Hanny's Voorwerp is an object the size of our own Milky Way Galaxy
It was on this day in 1908 that Teddy Roosevelt designated the Grand Canyon a national monument
A Twitter record was set at midnight in Japan, but the most surprising activity was that taking place across Brazil
Stale air, bad food, long hours, Vegas prices. This is where the road ends.
A look inside the Paleontology Laboratory at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History on January 15, 1911