Silhouetted by the sun, the space shuttle Discovery can be seen at upper right, docked to the International Space Station on March 1 during its final mission
A bright crater called Debussy takes center stage in one of the first pictures acquired by NASA's Messenger probe during the orbital phase of its mission to Mercury on March 29. Messenger became the first space probe to orbit Mercury on March 17, after a journey of six and a half years.
A bright crater called Debussy takes center stage in one of the first pictures acquired by NASA's Messenger probe during the orbital phase of its mission to Mercury on March 29. Messenger became the first space probe to orbit Mercury on March 17, after a journey of six and a half years.
A Russian Soyuz capsule touches down near the town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan on March 16. The spacecraft brought NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Alexander Kaleri back to Earth after a months-long stay on the International Space Station.
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope, released March 15, provides a stunning up-close view of part of the Tarantula Nebula. This star-forming region is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our Milky Way's satellite galaxies. The Tarantula Nebula is the most luminous nebula of its type in the local Universe