The Big Picture Blog from the Boston Globe has p...  ...ture Blog from the Boston Globe has pictures from NASA sent back by the Cassini spacecraft as it passed...  ...om Rhea. Link -via Metafilter (image credit: NASA /JPL/SSI) See also: Saturn's Newest Moon

Aw! Being the Internet slowpoke, I've just learned...  ...ing the Internet slowpoke, I've just learned that NASA has bucked the will of the people and named the I...  ...sked people for help naming the node by voting on NASA -suggested names and writing in their own suggesti...

From NASA 's always-amazing Astronomy Picture of the Day: N...

The first photograph of Earthrise was taken in 1...  ...irst photograph of Earthrise was taken in 1966 by NASA 's robotic probe Lunar Orbiter 1. After the Apollo...  ...re dumped into storage and forgotten. In the 70s, NASA hired Nancy Evans to look after their archives. E...  ...the story of the recovery. Link...

Here’s some good news for all the space buff...  ...some good news for all the space buffs out there: NASA ’s Phoenix lander may have captured the firs...

As part of the International Year of Astronomy, the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s telescopic observations, you get to decide where to point the Hubble next.“Hubble’s Next Discovery – You D...

If you happen to run across a rubber duckie floati...  ...ckie floating in the ocean, it may be worth $100! NASA has lost 90 of its yellow rubber ducks and it wan...

V838 Monocerotis - NASA /ESA via HubblesiteAlan Taylor of Boston Globe's T...

Photo Credit: (above) Iron Man (below) Jeremy Keit...  ...ow Jeremy Keith's photo of his buddy Andy Budd in NASA 's Vehicle Assembly Building in Cape Canaveral end...  ...want to use the picture because it’s inside NASA ’s Vehicle Assembly Building?” I asked...