NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Its First Rocky Planet (Artist Concept)

Prehistoric Black Hole (Artist's Concept)

Gas Giants Form Quickly (Artist Concept)

Stars Gather in 'Downtown' Milky Way

Spitzer Finds Clarity in the Inner Milky Way

WISE Unveils a Treasure Trove of Beauty

Fire and Ice Planet (Artist Concept)

Riding a Trail of Debris

Massive Star Makes Waves

Seagull Nebula -- Running with the Big Dog

Barred Ring Galaxy NGC 1291

Herschel's View of 'Lockman Hole'

Black Hole Simulation

The 'van Gogh' of the Infrared Sky

Herschel's Three-Color View of Asteroid Apophis

Our Chaotic Neighbor

Mini Soccer Balls in Space

A Royal Celebration

Wave of a Planet

Jabbah and Associates

The Extended Region Around the Planetary Nebula NGC 3242

An Unwelcome Place for New Stars (artist concept)

Cepheids as Cosmology Tools

Seven Sisters Get WISE

Blowin' in the Stellar Wind

It's Twins! Spitzer Finds Hidden Jet

The King of Rings

Anomalous Arms

WISE Catches Comet 65P/Gunn

A Year in the Life of an Infrared Echo

Dance of the Light Echoes

Cool Andromeda

Galaxy NGC 4579

Backwards Spiral Galaxy

Devastated Stellar Neighborhood

Dark Globule in IC 1396 (IRAC)

Echoes of a Stellar Ending

Two Models of Black Hole Spin (Artist's Concept)

Cracking the Code of Faraway Worlds

Three Great Eyes on Kepler's Supernova Remnant

Galaxy NGC 4013

Galactic Halos of Hydrogen

Herschel Spots Comet Massacre Around Nearby Star

Super-Comet or Big Asteroid Belt?

Cosmic Caper Unfolds in Infrared

Hubble Deep Field Image Unveils Myriad Galaxies Back to the Beginning of Time

Asteroid Caught Marching Across Tadpole Nebula

Galaxy NGC 55

A Distant Solar System (Artist's Concept Animation)

Order Amidst Chaos of Star's Explosion (Artist Concept)

Older Galaxy Pair Has Surprisingly Youthful Glow