Images Archive
29 December 2011, 07:00 AM ET
The Red Sea has a new inhabitant: a smoking island.
28 December 2011, 07:00 AM ET
The Cassini spacecraft captured shots of Titan, Dione and Enceladus.
24 December 2011, 09:44 AM ET
Amazing views of a comet, Saturn's moons, auroras and more made this week's top space photos list.
20 December 2011, 08:16 PM ET
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken amazing imagery of the frozen surfaces of Mars. Take in the breathtaking sights on this holiday tour aboard Santa's "Red Planet" sleigh.
20 December 2011, 08:00 AM ET
Among the more than 400 planets found beyond our solar system, there are volcanic Super Earths, gas giants that dwarf Jupiter, and worlds with multiple sunsets. Here are 15 (or 20) of the most incredible, starting with the very first alien world - 51 Pega
18 November 2011, 04:27 PM ET
Past, present and future space objects are highlighted in this new American Museum of Natural History show.
27 October 2011, 02:00 PM ET
See amazing views of asteroid 21 Lutetia from the July 2010 flyby of Europe's Rosetta probe.
11 October 2011, 12:14 PM ET
Each day we highlight a spectacular picture from space. See space exploration photos, astronaut pictures and more in our Image of the Day galleries.
06 October 2011, 05:00 AM ET
Comet Garradd is vsible in binoculars and small telescopes through October.
05 October 2011, 09:00 AM ET
See stunning close-up photos of Comet Hartley 2 from the Nov. 4, 2010 flyby of NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft.
05 October 2011, 07:08 AM ET
The photo could be a scene from a science fiction movie, but it's actually real.
22 September 2011, 08:00 AM ET
A rundown of some of the biggest spacecraft to smash into Earth beyond their operators' control.
07 September 2011, 11:42 AM ET
Astronauts on the International Space Station spotted wildfires raging in Texas.
20 August 2011, 06:14 PM ET
Meet Robonaut 2, NASA's robot helper for space station astronauts.
15 July 2011, 05:44 PM ET
The eerie green southern lights and Earth provide a stunning background for shuttle Atlantis.
02 July 2011, 05:22 PM ET
Canadian space tourist Guy Laliberte, founder of Cirque du Soleil, published a book called "Gaia" of photos of the Earth he took while visiting the International Space Station.
25 June 2011, 12:28 AM ET
From Pluto to the bowels of the sun, check out the best space photos for the week of June 27, 2011.
09 June 2011, 12:01 AM ET
A graphical representation of our solar system to scale - see how far the planets are from the sun in astronomical units.
02 May 2011, 06:33 PM ET
The 2002 Leonid Meteor Shower event provided plenty of thrills -- and lots of exciting images as evidence by this collection of snapshots submitted by SPACE.com visitors.
20 April 2011, 09:40 AM ET
Take an animated look inside the machine and science of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) and its search for dark matter, antimatter and the unknown; It was launch on Space Shuttle Endeavor's final mission.
17 April 2011, 05:13 PM ET
See photos of SpaceX's landmark first launch of its new Falcon 9 rocket on June 4, 2010.
04 April 2011, 06:02 PM ET
Wadi Rum is an alien-looking landscape in Jordan.
30 March 2011, 07:00 AM ET
The star cluster NGC 371 glows pink and red in a new photo from ESO's Very Large Telescope.
29 March 2011, 12:00 PM ET
NASA's Messenger spacecraft is the first dedicated to orbiting Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet.
