Leafy greens are pictured growing inside the Columbus laboratory module's VEGGIE botany research facility.
Flying 268 miles above New Zealand, the International Space Station's docked Progress 72 resupply ship is silhouetted over a wispy aurora australis, or "southern lights," the Earth's atmospheric glow and a starry orbital nighttime sky.
Astronomers obtained the first detailed face-on view of a gaseous disk feeding the growth of a massive baby star.
The International Space Station is gearing up for a pair of spaceships launching next weekend to deliver a new crew and more science and supplies.
Each black hole's mass is more than 800 million times that of our sun. As the two gradually draw closer together in a death spiral, they will begin sending gravitational waves rippling through space-time.
Flying 268 miles above New Zealand, the International Space Station's docked Progress 72 resupply ship is silhouetted over a wispy aurora australis, or "southern lights," the Earth's atmospheric glow and a starry orbital nighttime sky.
