Eye-popping bug photos Photographer Thomas Shahan specializes in spectacular portraits of insects and arachnids, taken very up close and personal. |
Solar city View images from a contest on the National Mall that has 20 university teams competing to build the best solar-powered home. |
Marvels of the Mekong See some of the 163 new species discovered in the Mekong River region of Southeast Asia. |
A rare spectacle on Saturn Click through scenes of Saturn and its rings, captured by the Cassini orbiter during the planet's first equinox in nearly 15 years. |
Hubble’s new vision Click through a gallery of pictures sent back from the Hubble Space Telescope since its final servicing mission. |
50 years of moon shots Up-close exploration of the moon, Earth's only natural satellite, began in 1959 and hasn't stopped. Take a look at scenes from 50 years of moon exploration. |
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Astronauts' Hubble picks Shuttle crewmates for Hubble's final fix-up list their favorite images from the famous space telescope. |
All-time top 10 astronomy pictures Click through 10 of the world's greatest space pictures, as chosen by the team behind NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day. |
Rare clouded leopard cubs born in Virginia A male named Tai and a female named Mook are the first pair of endangered clouded leopard cubs born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Conservation and Research Center in 16 years. Learn why breeding the smallest of the big cats is a difficult endeavor. |
New species from New Guinea See some of the more than 50 new species discovered in Papua New Guinea during an expedition led by Conservation International. |
Seas of riches See several of the thousands of documented species that inhabit the Antarctic and Arctic oceans, including some that researchers believe could be new to science. |
A dozen froggy finds See 12 colorful new frog species discovered in the forests of India’s Western Ghats. |
Will CES impress? The product lineup for the International Consumer Electronics show still looks promising, despite the tough economy. |
The Mekong’s hidden treasures See some of the 1,000 new species that have been discovered over the past decade in Southeast Asia’s Greater Mekong region. |
Small world! Winning images from the Nikon International Small World Competition reveal microscopic wonders. |
An astronaut looks back on a career in spaces What’s it like to fix the Hubble Space Telescope? Click to see Story Musgrave and other astronauts at work, and hear him describe the experience, from scary liftoffs to figuring out which way is up. |
Visualize science See a snapshot of squid suckers and other top images from the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. |
Storms from space Click through the highlights from September’s outer-space imagery, including glittering galaxies as well as Earth’s hurricanes viewed from on high. |
Hundreds of species discovered Marine biologists in Australia have discovered hundreds of new animal species in coral reefs in one of several projects to catalog all life in the oceans. |
Rare photos of Amazon tribe Striking images show Indians painted bright red, brandishing bows and arrows. |
Secrets of Stonehenge See stunning views of the famous stone monument and the archaeological work aimed at unraveling its mysteries. |
Galactic gems Feast your eyes on galactic gems and planetary prizes in May’s installment of “The Month in Space Pictures.” |
Earth as art Click through a collection of beautiful Earth imagery captured from orbit by the Landsat 7 satellte. |
Grand old canyon Find out how cave formations helped answer age-old questions about the Grand Canyon’s age. |
Banking on robots Japan is counting on its robot revolution to carry it through a crisis of rising labor costs and a swelling old-age population. |
Space Shots: Cosmic voyages See scenes from the shuttle Atlantis’ mission, plus Saturn, Mars and more. |
‘Doomsday’ vault opens The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built to protect millions of food crops from man-made and natural disasters, opened Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain. |
Visions of flight Get an inside look at the conception and construction of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, a rocket plane for suborbital space tourists. |
Biggest tech show on Earth Cool new products take the spotlight at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. |
Best of Cassini The Cassini spacecraft is sending back unprecedented imagery of Saturn, its rings and its moons. Click "Launch" to see some of the greatest hits from the Cassini mission. |
High-def Antarctica Get a sampling of snapshots from the international LIMA database of Antarctic satellite imagery |
The first moonshots See the highlights from NASA’s digital archive of Lunar Orbiter imagery, collected in 1966-1967 |
Aliens lurk in Antarctic depths Get an up-close view of the weird-looking species cataloged during a deep-sea survey off Antarctica’s coast. |
Extreme science Young researchers are paid little and work long hours so they can experience the terrible weather atop New Hampshire’s Mount Washington. |
Martian postcards Click through imagery from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. |
‘Green Corridor’ discoveries Researchers have found 11 new species in a remote region known as the "Green Corridor" in central Vietnam. |
Birthday treats from Saturn Fresh images from the ringed planet and its moons mark the 10th anniversary of the Cassini orbiter’s launch. |
Postcards from Jupiter Click through images of Jupiter and its moons, captured by NASA’s New Horizons probe during its flyby in February. |
King Tut revealed Take a virtual tour of King Tutankhamun’s tomb and see the newly revealed face and feet of his mummy. |
Eyes on Myanmar Satellites provide evidence to corroborate human-rights abuses by Myanmar’s military regime. |
Celebrities of the Celebes Sea See the strange creatures found during a scientific expedition to the Celebes Sea in the southern Philippines. |
NASA's highs and lows Click through decades of achievements and tragedies in America's human spaceflight effort. |
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