In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light ...

On January 17, 1985, the United States launched its 1,037th and final Aerobee rocket. Aerobee rockets were the first sounding rockets that the U.S. launched to research Earth's upper atmosphere. The ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has been busy with his camera again, this time sharing a beautiful image packed with features.

A cometary globule, known as “God’s Hand,” has been captured by the Dark Energy Camera on NSF’s Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope. Credit: Images and videos: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/N. Bartmann Image ...

In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ...

If Matthew Dominick ever offers to show you his travel photos, just confirm with him first that he’s edited them down from the half a million pictures that he took during his trip into space ...

where 1,050 K is an exospheric reference temperature derived by Rairden et al. (1986). The solar Lyman-α line-center flux can be calculated from the total solar Lyman-α flux (which is provided by ...