07.29.2016 Five years after departing Earth, and a month after slipping into orbit around Jupiter, NASA’s Juno...
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Mars mission with plasma rockets concept. NASA By Gary Li / 07.29.2016 PhD Candidate in Mechanical and...
07.25.2016 NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will launch September 2016 and travel to a near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu...
After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s...
Black holes are the most powerful gravitational force in the Universe. So what could cause them to...
Artist’s concept of the Juno mission to Jupiter. By Dr. Leigh Fletcher / 06.30.2016 Royal Society Senior...
Nearly fifty years ago, history was made when Neil Armstrong took his famous first small step on...
This scene shows NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at a location called “Windjana,” where the rover found rocks...
This low-angle self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the site from which it...
This artist’s rendering shows NASA’s Juno spacecraft making one of its close passes over Jupiter. / NASA,...
By Dr. Graham Woan / 06.15.2016 Professor of Astrophysics University of Glasgow The international team of physicists...
“Marathon Valley” on Mars opens to a view across Endeavour Crater in this scene from the Pancam...
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows one of the galaxies in the survey to refine the measurement...
DSAC is prepping for a yearlong experiment to characterize and test its suitability for use in future...
BEAM Inflation / NASA 06.03.2016 On Monday, June 6, astronaut Jeff Williams will enter the first human-rated...
Dr. Allan Adams Associate Professor of Physics Theoretical Physicist Massachusetts Institute of Technology Allan Adams is a...
Credit: NASA 06.01.2016 This week in 1999, the STS-96 crew aboard space shuttle Discovery became the first...
This illustration represents the best evidence to date that the direct collapse of a gas cloud produced...
With NASA astronaut Alan Shepard aboard, Mercury Redstone-3, America’s first piloted spaceflight is launched on May 5,...
Unlike science fiction films featuring grotesque aliens and faraway galaxies, Ridley Scott’s The Martian depicts a sci-fi...
Wes Mountain/The Conversation Our understanding of gravity has gone through a few permutations, from Newton’s equations through...
This enhanced-color view from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft shows an intricate pattern of linear fractures on the icy...
International Space Station / Wikimedia Commons 05/16/2016 Around the World 100,000 Times The International Space Station is...
We’re on the hunt for life – what do we do when we find it? NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS By...
This artist’s concept depicts select planetary discoveries made to date by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. / Credit...
Members of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s rocketry team said at NASA’s Student Launch competition that they...
Katherine Johnson worked at NASA’s Langley Research Center from 1953 to 1986. Since her retirement, she’s been...
Imagined view from the surface of one of the newly discovered planets, with ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1...
By Dr. Julie Robinson International Space Station Chief Scientist Collecting data before, during and after the mission...
04.28.2016 Astronomers have used data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s Planck and a large list of...