During a mid-October expedition, a NASA team made a discovery of a large crack running across an antarctic glacier
A picture from the day the space shuttle Discovery launched shows the International Space Station passing across the moon
The lift-off of the first Saturn rocket represents the initial phase of the Apollo program's efforts to send men to the moon
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft sent back this picture of some craters on the smallest and closest-to-the sun planet
A team of linguists and computer scientists have broken a centuries-old code using modern statistical techniques
A new image of a massive supernova, first noticed by astronomers in China nearly 2,000 years ago
On its mission to Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took this picture of the cloud bands that encircle Jupiter
An image from the International Space Station shows Atlanta and the surrounding areas at night
A view of the Grand Canyon from NASA's Terra spacecraft
In visible light, this nebula resembles the continent of North America, but in infrared light, it has a completely different appearance
An image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captures the formation of new stars in the Orion nebula
An image of Carina Nebula, a star-forming region some 7,5000 light years away from Earth
An algae bloom off the coast of Michigan, Ohio, and Ontario is the worst in decades, so extensive that it is visible from space
The sun's light gets filtered by Saturn's rings, creating a pattern of stripes across the planet
An image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a nebula that is 1,600 light years away from Earth
A mosaic image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the stars and swirling hydrogen gas at the core of the Milky Way
A photograph taken from the Terra satellite shows the leaves beginning to change in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
An image of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs introducing the Apple II computer in Cupertino, California, in 1977
At CEATEC, a consumer electronics show taking place outside of Tokyo, a woman models a pulse monitor that doubles as jewelry
At a massive consumer electronics show in Japan, a man "talks" to a listening car about his ideas for a vehicle of the future