Twenty-five percent of the moon's impact craters may retain substantial remnants of the asteroids that created them, a new study finds. The surprising result suggests that scientists will have to work a little harder than they had perhaps anticipated …

Parts of New Jersey, right side of frame, and New York City (generally, left part of photo) are the focus of this still image downlinked from the International Space Station while docked with the space shuttle Discovery. Image/caption credit: NASA spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-23/html/… More about space station science: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/index.html There’s a Flickr group about Space Station Science. [...]

This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons license. Please credit Rob Larsen with a link to Drunkenfist.com, if you use this photo anywhere. Thanks. By: Rob React

While flying above the Atlantic Ocean, one of the members of the joint Atlantis-International Space Station crews took this photo of the Delmarva Peninsula from the orbiting complex on July 16, 2011. Image credit: NASA Original image: spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-28/html/… More about space station research: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html There’s a Flickr group about Space Station Research. Please feel welcome [...]

Editor’s Note: This is an archive image from 2006. I felt like a little color today. The Aurora Borealis, also known as "northern lights," is featured in this photograph taken by an Expedition 13 crew member on the International Space Station. Image credit: NASA View original image/caption: spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-13/html/… More about space station science: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/index.html There’s [...]

A last quarter crescent moon above Earth’s horizon is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station. Image credit: NASA View original image/caption: spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-24/html/… More about space station science: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/index.html There’s a Flickr group about Space Station Science. Please feel welcome to join! www.flickr.com/groups/stationscience/ By: NASA’s Marshall [...]