Test Like You Fly: What Is Green Run?
Before NASA’s deep space rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to send…
Mariner 6 and 7 Explore the Red Planet
Lost in the glare following the Apollo 11 Moon landing, two intrepid robotic spacecraft flew by Mars in the summer…
Hubble Uncovers a ‘Heavy Metal’ Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football
How can a planet be “hotter than hot?” The answer is when heavy metals are detected escaping from the planet’s…
NASA Television to Broadcast Space Station Departure of Cygnus Cargo Ship
The Canadarm2 robotic arm is positioned to grapple the Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo craft as it approaches its capture point…
NASA Television to Broadcast Space Station Departure of Cygnus Cargo Ship
More than three months after delivering several tons of supplies and scientific experiments to the International Space Station, Northrop Grumman’s…
One in five Brits take gamble by going on holiday without travel insurance
Despite the continued uncertainty over leaving the European Union, fed-up Brits are still booking their annual holidays, but up to…
Hubble Traces a Galaxy’s Outer Reaches
Believe it or not, this long, luminous streak, speckled with bright blisters and pockets of material, is a spiral galaxy…
Inside Dark, Polar Moon Craters, Water Not as Invincible as Expected, Scientists Argue
The Moon’s south pole region is home to some of the most extreme environments in the solar system: it’s unimaginably…
This Week in NASA History: First Use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle – July 31, 1971
This week in 1971, Apollo 15 became the first mission to use the Lunar Roving Vehicle. The LRV was a…
Confirmation of Toasty TESS Planet Leads to Surprising Find of Promising World
A piping hot planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has pointed the way to additional worlds orbiting…
NASA’s TESS Mission Scores ‘Hat Trick’ With 3 New Worlds
NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has discovered three new worlds — one slightly larger than…
NASA Announces US Industry Partnerships to Advance Moon, Mars Technology
Illustration of a human landing system and crew on the lunar surface with Earth near the horizon. Credits: NASA As…
First of Two Van Allen Probes Spacecraft Ceases Operations
On July 19, 2019, at 1:27 p.m. EDT, mission operators sent a shutdown command to one of two Van Allen…
NASA Announces Call for Next Phase of Commercial Lunar Payload Services
Commercial landers will carry NASA-provided science and technology payloads to the lunar surface, paving the way for NASA astronauts to…
NASA Effort Digitizes Moon Rock, Making 3D Sample Available Beyond Researchers
When Neil Armstrong became the first human to stand on the Moon, he had a three-dimensional view that allowed him…