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First Annual International Space Station R&D Conference
05.14.12 - All are welcome to attend and be part of this year’s theme: Results and Opportunities -- The Decade of Utilization
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Mojave Desert Tests Prepare for NASA Mars Roving
05.11.12 - Engineers ran rover-mobility tests on California sand dunes in preparation for operating NASA's Curiosity rover after it lands in Mars' Gale Crater.
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8 Questions about NextGen, Part 2
05.11.12 - Don't get too used to the airplanes you see today because things are changing.
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Meteorite Discovery Spurs Hunt For More Pieces
05.10.12 - Meteorite fragments were recently found that could hold answers to unsolved mysteries about our solar system and the origins of molecules necessary for life.
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NASA's New Carbon-Counting Instrument Leaves the Nest
05.10.12 - NASA’s first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide moves closer to reality with the shipment of its JPL-built science instrument.
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Space Station -- Here We Come!
05.11.12 - SpaceX's Dragon capsule will transport student payload Aquarius on its historic flight to the International Space Station.
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SLS Carries Deep Space Potential
05.09.12 - The Space Launch System is on track to give America the launch vehicle to send humans deeper into space than ever before.
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Calling Cosmonauts From Home!
Educating future scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians is a global effort -- one that includes the contributions of Roscosmos.
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HIFiRE Scramjet Research Flight Will Advance Hypersonic Technology
05.10.12 - The Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HIFiRE) team celebrates the successful launch of an experimental hypersonic scramjet.
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IBEX Reveals Missing Boundary At Solar System Edge
05.10.12 - Scientists compile data from IBEX, Voyager, and computer models to show that the heliosphere just isn't moving fast enough to create a bow shock.
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A Solution for Medical Needs in Space
05.10.12 - Imagine you're an astronaut exploring the surface of Mars, when you fall ill. As your team struggles to get you back to base, you become dehydrated.
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NASA's Juno Spacecraft Images Big Dipper
05.10.12 - En route to Jupiter, NASA's Juno mission has snapped a quick photo of a familiar sight in the nighttime sky--the Big Dipper.
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NASA Continues J-2X Powerpack Testing
05.10.12 - NASA conducted a long duration test of the J-2X powerpack, 340 seconds total, at the Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi on May 10.
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Opportunity Rolling Again After Fifth Mars Winter
05.09.12 - With its daily supply of solar energy increasing, Opportunity has driven off the sunward-tilted outcrop where it spent its fifth Martian winter.
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More Eruptions from Active Region 1476
05.17.12 - The sun erupted with an M-class flare that peaked at 9:47 PM EDT on May 17, 2012. A CME also burst from the sun at 9:48 PM EDT, traveling at over 930 miles per second.
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Final RS-25 Engine Arrives at Stennis
05.09.12 - RS-25 series rocket engine No. 2059 is being prepared for future testing and use on NASA's new Space Launch System.
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Overfed Black Holes Shut Down Galactic Star-Making
05.09.12 - New data from Herschel Space Observatory shows galaxies with powerful, active black holes at their cores produce fewer stars.
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Students Send Commands to the Space Station
05.09.12 - Thousands of everyday middle-school students have experienced excitement using the EarthKAM camera system.
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NASA Spacecraft Detects Changes in Martian Sand Dunes
05.09.12 - MRO has revealed that movement in Mars' sand dune fields occurs on a surprisingly large scale, about the same as in dune fields on Earth.
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NASA Dawn Mission Reveals Secrets of Large Asteroid
05.10.12 - NASA's Dawn spacecraft has provided researchers with the first orbital analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta, yielding new insights into its creation and kinship with terrestrial planets and Earth's moon.