Infrared image of California Powerhouse Fire from NASA ER-2

Earth will be captured in a photo, taken from hundreds of millions of miles away on July 19, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which is currently exploring Saturn, the space agency announced on Tuesday. Cassini is composing a multi-image portrait of ...

Twin Peaks, Mars. Courtesy of Timothy Parker/JPL/NASA Eighty thousand people recently applied for a trip to Mars, an excursion that will allegedly be funded by selling reality-TV show rights for the voyage. The company running this curious ...

Photograph courtesy NASA Flight engineers on theInternational Space Station (ISS), including U.S. astronaut Chris Cassidy (pictured), completed a 5.5-hour spacewalk on May 11 to repair a leaky coolant pump. The pump provides ammonia coolant to ...

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield Photo courtesy of: NASA Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded his own version of David Bowie's Space Oddity SAINT JOHN, N.B.- A Saint John filmmaker says he plans to have a few beers with Canadian astronaut ...

Image courtesy Immler/Siegel/Mellinger, CMU/Penn/Swift/NASA Looking like mounds of sugar crystals scattered across a black tablecloth, this ultraviolet image, released June 3, showcases the multitude of stars that reside within one of the Milky ...

Illustration courtesy Caltech/NASA With the world abuzz this week about Earth's close encounter with a giant asteroid, NASA scientists announced on May 30 the discovery of an entire new family of these celestial rocks hiding out in the asteroid belt ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Image courtesy of NASA website. Eleven teams from across the country and around the globe are preparing to compete for $1.5 million during NASA's 2013 Sample Return Robot Challenge, June 5-7 at the ...

An artist drawing of a gamma-ray burst. (Courtesy: NASA) Top Stories Earth may be lying within the sights of a potentially lethal gamma-ray burst that can wipe out a quarter of our planet's protective atmospheric ozone, scientists claim. A ...

Venus, Mercury, and Jupiter, will seem to huddle together this week. Composite image courtesy NASA Sky-watchers this week get a chance to go eye to eye with a cosmic scorpion and witness a magnificent meeting of three neighboring worlds in the ...