The optical illusion occurs because people are used to interpreting shadows as coming from an overhead light source. But that's not necessarily the orientation of spacecraft. In many satellite photos, ...

When NASA launched the second of its Space Shuttle missions in November of 1981, Columbia was carrying a new space robot ... board the telescope — the Fine Guidance Sensor and the Near-Infrared Imager ...

In Photos: Remembering the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster 20 Years Later Initially scheduled for liftoff in January 1999, the Space Shuttle Discovery finally launched on July 25, 2005 as NASA ...

NASA has been using X-rays to crack the invisible secrets of the universe for decades. The Einstein Observatory pioneered X-ray astronomy in the late '70s, but the crown jewel of this science field is ...

At 8:44 a.m. on February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia re-entered Earth's atmosphere at around 400,000 feet. Over the next eight minutes, Columbia descended 150,000 feet at Mach 24.1 ...

The Space Shuttles Discovery in 2010 (Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls) NASA's space shuttle missions first launched in 1981 ... In its three-decade stint, the fleet consisted of orbiters, Columbia, ...

Astronauts took the photo from the space shuttle Columbia in March 1994, according to NASA. The aurora australis corkscrew over the Southern Hemisphere at night, stunning astronauts. This photo ...

With technology like the high definition cameras on the Perseverance rover and the incredible sensitive infrared ... space stay entrenched in the public imagination, like the famous Pale blue Dot ...

NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KETK) – 21 years have passed since the Columbia space shuttle experienced a catastrophic failure ... courtesy of NASA In-flight STS-107 crew photo, with Red Team members Kalpana ...

Former astronaut Tom Jones interviewed more than 130 fellow astronauts to create a definitive oral history of the space shuttle program ... Mission: Columbia’s DOD payload is still classified.

Miles O’Brien: The 113th mission of the space shuttle fleet, and the second now to end in catastrophe. That's where I was, covering the disaster on CNN. Mark Kelly was then a NASA astronaut with ...