The aptly named Aqua, part of the Earth Observing System, orbits our planet to study evaporation, precipitation and cycling of water
Too anxious to wait for official images, NASA employees assembled thin strips printed by a "real-time data translator" machine
Created by an aerospace engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center, this image shows how fire acts differently in space than on Earth
The MPCV, announced by NASA and Lockheed in late May, will eventually be used to send astronauts to an asteroid and then to Mars
Just one of Saturn's many moons, Helene was discovered in 1980 with ground-based observations from the Pic du Midi Observatory
From the NASA archive, this photo shows Young and astronaut Gus Grissom in the Ellington Air Force Base's pool with the Gemini capsule
Researchers at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center are working with the Air Force to improve collision avoidance technologies
While especially radiant, RCW 120 is just one of several such objects NASA's Spitzer telescope has found throughout the Milky Way galaxy
The story of Steve Jobs' rise and fall and rise again is an epic one. And that's why he's getting turned into a comic character.
Curiosity should reach the surface of Mars, where it will work to determine whether or not life is possible, sometime in August of 2012
When the spacecraft launched from the platform of Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrone last week, photographers were at the ready
While preparing the Soyuz TMA-02M rocket for its latest mission, engineers were dwarfed by the mechanisms of this Kazahkstani facility
Hidden from view and about 25,000 light-years away, Arches is the densest known gathering of developing stars anywhere in our galaxy
NASA combined 330 photographs taken by the Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope on Swift to create this high-resolution image of M31
Scientists have figured out how to photograph and study reflection nebulae because they're often where new stars are formed
NASA administrator Charles Bolden met with workers at the Kennedy Space Center as they prepared Atlantis for mission STS-135
Scheduled to take flight on Tuesday, June 7, the Soyuz was raised into a vertical position on the launch pad over the weekend
Burning something in space produces a far different outcome than burning it on Earth would because of the absence of gravity
It's Iceland's most active volcano, but before it erupted on May 21, Grimsvotn hadn't exploded so forcefully in over 100 years
A few days into the program's penultimate flight, mission specialist Ron Garan shoots a photograph of Endeavour suspended in space