In a mission to learn more about the sun's inner workings, NASA is planning to launch a specially shielded spacecraft in 2018 that will plunge into the solar atmosphere. The car-sized Solar Probe Plus will explore an area just 4 million miles from the star's surface,
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This spooky image of a tiny nebula known as IRAS 05437+2502 was recently released by the Hubble Space Telescope, but perhaps even more eerie than the wispy, ghost-like appearance
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If we ever decide to colonize Mars, it might be fairly simple to grow crops in that red soil, according to a
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He has been crated up and shipped to Kennedy Space Center. At the Space Station Processing Facility there, he is going to be carefully packed into his SLEEPR -- the Structural Launch Enclosure to Effectively Protect Robonaut.
At over 220 kilograms, the
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It's been a rough week troubleshooting the ISS, but the third time is a charm; today's emergency spacewalk to replace the faulty cooling system aboard the International Space Station went
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In an acknowledgement that the private space industry just might have something going for it, NASA is setting aside $30 million to buy information gleaned from
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Saturday's emergency spacewalk outside the International Space Station failed to replace the faulty cooling pump that malfunctioned last
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In 2016, NASA and the European Space Agency will launch the first-ever joint U.S./Euro mission to Mars, and Tuesday they unveiled exactly what kind of toys the ExoMars Trace
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On Sunday, sunspot number 1092 emitted a C-class solar flare--not a large one, by solar flare standards. But NASA scientists were intrigued by what accompanied it -- an unusually fast corona mass ejection that sent a large cloud of charged plasma toward Earth. There will be no adverse effects
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R2 was developed through a Space Act Agreement by NASA and General Motors. It is faster, more dexterous and more technologically advanced than its predecessors and able to use its hands to do work beyond the scope of previously introduced humanoid robots.
Robonaut-2, NASA's robot astronaut,
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NASA has been tracking a piece of space junk on course for a near collision with the International Space Station this week, but while the agency continues to monitor the debris --
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So everyone chill out. It does raise interesting questions for alien life-hunters, however
Biologists have isolated a bacterium that can use a deadly chemical in place of one of life's key building blocks, in a finding NASA says could have major implications for astrobiology
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In February 2009, NASA launched the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, a research spacecraft that crashed into the ocean shortly after launch. The project, managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was designed to map the distribution of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere.
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A 3.2-million-kilometre-per-hour collision in a galaxy cluster 54 million light years away has left us with this amazing image captured by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer
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Saturday's emergency spacewalk outside the International Space Station failed to replace the faulty cooling pump that malfunctioned last
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It appears Tuesday's massive solar eruption is already impacting communications in southern China and may disrupt satellites in orbit
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While the astronomical community anxiously awaits the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope keeps reminding us just how remarkable of an instrument it really is. Astronomers studying ultra-deep imagery from Hubble have located what could
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Choking back a tear, NASA has announced the dates of the final missions to be made by the Space Shuttle. Discovery will lift off on November 1, for a 10-day mission carrying parts to the International Space Station. After that, February 26, 2020, will mark
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NASA is looking for a way to get into space without having to use those pesky, bulky rockets. That means hypersonic
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Next time you're marveling at the fact that Spirit and Opportunity have been roving Mars for over six years now, ponder this: the two Voyager spacecraft
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Perhaps its sentimentality that's making Discovery stall its 39th and final mission. Scheduled to launch at 3:04 p.m. today after four days of delays for reasons ranging from helium and nitrogen leaks to voltage
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When hypothesizing about life that may exist elsewhere in the universe, the tendency is to visualize something far different from life here on earth. But here in our galactic neighborhood, a team of MIT researchers argues, life it just as likely related to us. Following
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Global Positioning Systems work famously here on the home planet because we control all of the moving parts; put some satellites in the sky, equip a device with the proper hardware to communicate with them, and you can locate yourself just about anywhere. But how would
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The Deep Impact probe, part of NASA's EPOXI mission, has successfully returned never-before-seen images of the comet Hartley 2 as it flew near Earth this morning,
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NASA is looking for a way to get into space without having to use those pesky, bulky rockets. That means hypersonic
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Ever since Japan's asteroid exploring spacecraft Hyabusa crash-landed in the Australian outback this summer after a seven year round trip through space, astronomers and space geeks the world over have been waiting to hear confirmation from JAXA (the Japanese space agency)
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Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have made one of the most detailed dark matter maps ever, taking advantage of the dark matter's own gravitational effects to bring it into the light.
The map suggests massive galaxy clusters may have formed earlier
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The James Webb Space Telescope threatens to eat the budgets of other missions
Huge cost overruns caused by mismanagement of the James Webb Space Telescope are delaying NASA's keystone science
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Now that we've begun 3D printing anything and everything here on Earth, it's time
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A nanosatellite no bigger than a loaf of bread -- and named after cookies -- is set to launch today to study the origins of life in the universe.
Its name stands for Organism/Organic
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