SpaceX Dragon Crew Emergency Evacuation Rehearsal
A quick moving storm passes as teams from NASA and SpaceX practice procedures for medical emergency evacuation onboard the GO…
Space Station Science Highlights: Week of August 26, 2019
Scientific studies recently conducted by the Expedition 60 crew include a variety of student-designed experiments, research on how bacteria adjust…
NASA Ocean Ecosystem Mission Moves Forward
After passing a key review hurdle, NASA’s newest mission to study the health of Earth’s ocean ecosystems and atmosphere is…
The Latest Look at “First Light” from Chandra
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured many spectacular images of cosmic phenomena over its two decades of operations, but perhaps…
How NASA Will Protect Astronauts From Space Radiation at the Moon
August 1972, as NASA scientist Ian Richardson remembers it, was hot. In Surrey, England, where he grew up, the fields…
NASA Invites Students to Name Next Mars Rover
Red rover, red rover, send a name for Mars 2020 right over! NASA is recruiting help from students nationwide to…
NASA’s MMS Finds Its 1st Interplanetary Shock
The Magnetospheric Multiscale mission — MMS — has spent the past four years using high-resolution instruments to see what no…
The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits
Earth’s Moon and Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, may contain significantly more water ice than previously thought, according…
Our Sun Today
NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory, or SDO, was the first mission to be launched for NASA’s Living With a Star (LWS)…
Shining (Star)light on the Search for Life
In the hunt for life on other worlds, astronomers scour over planets that are light-years away. They need ways to…
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
More than three months after delivering several tons of supplies and scientific experiments to the International Space Station, Northrop Grumman’s…
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 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…