NASA

The Top 5 “Earth as Art” Images, Thanks to Landsat

NASA's first Earth-observing Landsat satellite launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on July 23, 1972, and to celebrate the 40th…

12 years ago

HI-C Returns Most Detailed Images Ever of the Sun’s Corona

NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) mission, launched Wednesday, July 11 from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, successfully returned…

12 years ago

Independent Filmmaker Wants to Kickstart America’s Space Program

"If Kennedy said 'we will go to the Moon...some time before the century ends,' what is... what is that? That's…

12 years ago

Postcards From The (Inner) Edge

As the world turns its gaze outward in anticipation of the arrival of Mars Science Laboratory -- with its hair-raising…

12 years ago

The Audacity to Dream

Making its debut at the TEDxISU (International Space University) event on July 6, the video above is an inspirational call-to-arms…

13 years ago

Rethinking the Source of Earth’s Water

Earth, with its blue hue visible from space, is known for its abundant water - predominately locked in oceans -…

13 years ago

Dawn’s Vestan Endeavour Exceptionally Exciting near End of Year-Long Super Science Survey

Image Caption: Divalia Fossa equatorial trough at Vesta pictured in side by side images showing apparent brightness and topography. The…

13 years ago

Hubble Spies Tiny, Ancient ‘Ghost Galaxies’

They're out there; tiny, extremely faint and incredibly ancient dwarf galaxies with so few stars that scientists call them 'ghost…

13 years ago

NASA To Launch The Finest Mirrors Ever Made

This Wednesday NASA will launch its High Resolution Coronal Imager (HI-C) mission from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico,…

13 years ago

WISE Spies a Hunter’s Flame

A vast star-forming cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Orion shines brightly in this image from NASA's WISE…

13 years ago