Carrying Expedition 27 Commander Dmitry Kondratyev and two flight engineers, the TMA-20 landed in a remote stretch of desert
As the Shuttle era winds down, astronauts are still walking in space high above the Earth
This 5 gigapixel mosaic was stitched together from over 37,000 images, the result of a season following, year long effort and 60,000 travel miles in search of still dark skies
A NASA satellite captures the sprawling metropolitan linkages of one of America's most densely populated regions
Named for the Greek god who gave mortals fire, this plume may have been continuously active on the surface of Jupiter's moon for nearly 18 years
Images from a meteorological satellite capture the vertical extent of the Grímsvötn volcano's eruption cloud
With a central bulge of stars and a distinct rim of interstellar dust, this unusual galaxy may be shaped by a black hole at its core
The 3,900 foot Morganza Floodway was opened on May 18 to accommodate extensive flooding on the Mississippi River
Istanbul has tripled in area over the last 35 years, as we can see in this photo from space
The European Space Agency's Paolo Nespoli shot this photograph during Expedition 26/27, Europe's six-month mission to the ISS
Original plans called for Mount Rushmore to depict four presidents from head to waist, but funding ran out before it could be completed
An airliner is captured in striking perspective by one of the satellites used to populate Google Maps.
The heat given off by a test of NASA's Development Motor-2 in the Promontory, Utah, could be felt by onlookers about a mile away
A tool mounted on the Terra spacecraft created this false-color image of flooding just west of the Mississippi River in early May
Flying high overhead where it could not be damaged, the Terra satellite watched as tornadoes swept through Tuscaloosa
Over the course one complete year, NASA's WISE mapped out the entire sky using infrared light and found these 20 comets
An Expedition 27 crew member recently captured this photograph of the terminator line from the International Space Station
A malfunctioning pair of heaters used to keep the auxiliary power units from freezing is keeping the Space Shuttle grounded
After dozens of unmanned tests, Project Mercury allowed Alan Shepard to become the first American in space fifty years ago today
One of the many phases of Earth's only natural satellite, a waxing gibbous occurs between a first quarter moon and a full moon