09.21.2016 NASA is seeking innovative technology for the agency’s future exploration missions in the solar system and...
Space Exploration
09.16.2016 Two years after selecting the next generation of American spacecraft and rockets that will launch astronauts...
Since NASA’s Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn, the planet’s appearance has changed greatly. This view shows Saturn’s...
The first results from the Gaia satellite, which is completing an unprecedented census of more than one...
As part of the Asteroid Redirect Mission, NASA plans to send a robotic spacecraft to an asteroid...
Artist’s impression of dark matter clumps around a Milky Way-like galaxy. The discovery of two massive holes...
The red box clearly shows where the lander is hiding. ESA By Dr. Monica Grady / 09.06.2016...
09.08.2016 NASA’s first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at 7:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral...
The story of oceans is the story of life. Oceans define our home planet, covering the majority...
Artist’s impression of the surface of the planet Proxima b, orbiting Proxima Centauri. ESO/M. Kornmesserc By Dr....
Margaret Hamilton, lead Apollo flight software designer, inside the Command Module. / NASA In 1969, the world...
An artist’s concept of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft. / NASA 08.05.2016 Launched five years ago on Aug....
07.29.2016 Five years after departing Earth, and a month after slipping into orbit around Jupiter, NASA’s Juno...
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: Â 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...