Powerful storms on the sun are captured by a NASA mission that will be examining a period of increased solar activity
NASA's mission to the innermost planet is providing scientists with new clues about its geology and chemistry
A competition sponsored by Google in southern California is looking for ways to reduce the emissions from air travel
An infrared image taken of a far-away star formation happened to record the path of an asteroid in our own solar system as well
A photograph from 1949 shows an analog computing machine at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory
An image taken from the International Space Stations show the layers of the Earth's atmosphere and noctilucent clouds
A two-decade old picture shows the satellite that is expected to crash down from the skies at some point today
A photograph from the Cassini spacecraft captures a quintet of Saturn's moons, arrayed around the planet's rings
An illustration from an 18th-century book shows the internal workings of the most advanced calculator of the time
An image of a day on Earth drawing to a close, taken by the crew of the third expedition to the International Space Station
A photograph taken in July shows ice in the seas north of Alaska. By the end of the century, summers there may be ice-free.
A new theory posits that galaxies form stars slowly and steadily, fueled by narrow streams of cold gas, not collisions as previously thought
An image snapped by NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite shows the extent of burned vegetation in the south of Texas
At the International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Germany, small electric vehicles are garnering attention for their compact style
The remnants of a supernova in a nearby galaxy are captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the closest supernova in centuries
NASA's GRAIL spacecraft took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Saturday, embarking on a three-month trip to the moon
On September 18, 1977, Voyager snapped this image, the first ever taken by a spacecraft that shows both the Earth and Moon as crescents
Valles Marineris is an enormous canyon system formed by erosion that cuts more than 3,100 miles through the surface of Mars
This image was computer generated using three-dimensional information provided by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter
NGC 5679 or Arp 274 is a system about 400 million light years away made famous because it looks like three overlapping galaxies