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Hinode Observes Annular Solar Eclipse
05.20.12 - Spectacular images from the Hinode spacecraft show the solar eclipse, which darkened the sky in parts of the western United States and Southeast Asia.
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National Small Business Week
05.21.12 - The hard work and dedication of NASA's small business partners have been vital to the NASA vision and mission.
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Zapping Deadly Bacteria
05.21.12 - A technology spin-off from long-running research aboard the International Space Station is opening up a new way to keep hospital patients safe from infections.
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Cassini Spots Tiny Moon, Begins to Tilt
05.21.12 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Saturn's tiny moon Methone.
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Surveying Asteroids
05.16.12 - Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardous asteroids.
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View of Lyrids and Earth at Night
05.18.12 - On April 21, the Lyrid meteor shower peaked. While NASA allsky cameras were looking up, astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station trained his camera on Earth.
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IRVE-3 Flight Hardware Test
05.16.12 - The Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE-3) is the third in a series of suborbital flight tests to demonstrate the feasibility of inflatable spacecraft technology.
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Mt. St. Helens Forest Recovery
05.17.12 - Mt. St. Helens exploded 32 years ago on May 18, culminating with the cataclysmic collapse of the flank of the mountain and the largest landslide in recorded history.
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GALEX Mission Continues
05.16.12 - In a first-of-a-kind move for NASA, a Space Act Agreement lets the university can resume spacecraft operations and data management for the mission using private funds.
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Iconic VAB Being Refurbished
05.14.12 - The Vehicle Assembly Building has been a landmark to the technological advancements of sending astronauts into space for more than 45 years.
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Expedition 31
05.17.12 - Joe Acaba, Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin joined their Expedition 31 crewmates when the hatches between the Soyuz vehicle and the ISS officially opened at 4:10 a.m. EDT.
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Student Spaceflight Experiments Program
05.15.12 - When SpaceX's Dragon capsule launches a very special payload will be on board: 15 student experiments from the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program.
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MSL Desert Tests
05.11.12 - Team members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission took a test rover to Dumont Dunes in California's Mojave Desert.
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Dawn Reveals Secrets of Large Asteroid
05.10.12 - Dawn provides researchers with the first orbital analysis of the asteroid Vesta, yielding new insights into its creation and kinship with terrestrial planets and Earth's moon.
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Meteorite Discovery
05.10.12 - Meteorite fragments recently were scattered around Sutter’s Mill, the same region where the first nugget of gold was found that sparked the 1848 Gold Rush.