Launching aboard an Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Orbital’s Cygnus spacecraft will deliver cargo and crew supplies to the International Space Station. […]
NASA’s NEOWISE mission captured a series of pictures of comet C/2012 K1 — also known as comet Pan-STARRS — as it swept across our skies in May 2014. […]
NASA is developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and Mars in the 2030s – goals outlined in the bipartisan NASA Authorization Act of 2010 and in the U.S. National Space Policy, also issued in 2010. […]
A newly discovered planet in a binary, or twin, star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth is expanding astronomers’ notions of where Earth-like — and even potentially habitable — planets can form, and how to find them. […]
Drew Parker, a rising seventh grader who will be participating in the Galileo program at Jefferson Middle School, met with Congressman Bill Posey and Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana at Posey’s office in Washington this summer. […]
A Delta II rocket blazed off the launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California early Wednesday morning to begin a landmark mission to survey carbon dioxide gas in Earth’s atmosphere. […]
On June 29, 2014, at 7:06 p.m., the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM, satellite flew over a low-pressure center east of Florida. […]
A suite of NASA’s sun-gazing spacecraft have spotted an unusual series of eruptions in which a series of fast puffs forced the slow ejection of a massive burst of solar material from the sun’s atmosphere. […]
ABOVE VIDEO: During a recent hearing […]
Anyone living in a major U.S. city for the past decade may have noticed a change in the air. The change is apparent in new NASA satellite images unveiled this week that demonstrate the reduction of air pollution across the country. […]
Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula, an immense stellar nursery some 1,500 light-years away. […]
NASA Nightlights New ‘Sun and Prominence’ Image […]
