NASA NICER Mission Set to Study Mysterious Neutron Stars
A new NASA mission is headed for the International Space Station next month to observe one of the strangest observable objects in the universe. The…
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NASA Reviews 12 Proposals for Future Unmanned Solar System Exploration
NASA is reviewing 12 proposals for a future unmanned mission that will launch in the mid 2020s. The proposed missions were submitted as part of…
NASA Issues a Challenge – High Performance Fast Computing Challenge
Improve the speed of computational fluid dynamics algorithms in NASA’s FUN3D software. A prize purse of up to $55,000 in overall cash prizes is available….
NASA Putting Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope on Pause, Need to Review Project
Over the next several months, NASA will review the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) project to help ensure it would provide compelling scientific capability…
Cassini Mission & Hubble Telescope Provide New Insights into ‘Ocean Worlds’
NASA’s Cassini Mission and Hubble Space Telescope are providing new details about ocean-bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn, increasing the scientific interest of these and…
Near-Earth Asteroid 2014 JO25 Set to Fly Past Earth on April 19
Discovered nearly three years ago, the relatively large near-Earth asteroid 2014 JO25 is set to fly safely past Earth on April 19 at a distance…
NASA Launches New Video, Audio and Imagery Library for the Public
NASA has launched a new website that will allow the public search and download out-of-this-world images, videos and audio files by keyword and metadata searches…
K-Cor Gives Scientists an Early Warning of Incoming Space Weather
Scientists from NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have shown that data from a ground-based instrument called K-Cor can give scientists early warning…
NASA Study Shows Change in Water ‘Fingerprint’ of Comet Lovejoy
A new study suggests that a trip past the sun may have selectively altered the production of one form of water in a comet. Astronomers…
NASA’s Juno Mission to Continue Its Exciting Journey of Discovery
NASA has decided to forego a previously-planned engine firing and allow Juno to remain in its current orbit for the remainder of the mission. This…
NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate Selects Proposals for Space Research Institutes
NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate has selected proposals for the creation of two multi-disciplinary, university-led research institutes that will focus on the development of technologies…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Makes Its Fourth Flyby Over Jupiter’s Mysterious Cloud Tops
Today NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make its fourth flyby over Jupiter’s mysterious cloud tops. At the time of closest approach (called perijove), Juno will be…
New HiRISE Image of Martian Dunes in Northern Summer
This newly released HiRISE image shows dunes on the surface of Mars during the Martian northern summer. This dune field formed near the base of…
NuSTAR Helps Solve Forty-Year-Old Neutron Star Mystery
Astronomers may have solved a 40-year-old mystery surrounding a neutron star in the “Rapid Burster” system. Scientists observing a curious neutron star in a binary…
New NASA Mission Will Visit Metal Asteroid 16 Psyche
NASA has announced a new mission that will send an unmanned spacecraft to a large asteroid in the primary asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter….
Hubble Detects ‘Exocomets’ Plunging Into Young Star HD 172555
The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered comets plunging into young star HD 172555, which resides 95 light-years from Earth. The exocomets — comets outside our…
New NASA Mission to Study Black Holes, Cosmic X-ray Mysteries
A new NASA mission will allow astronomers to explore the hidden details of some of the most extreme and exotic astronomical objects, such as stellar…
NEOWISE Mission Spots One Comet, Maybe Two
NASA’s NEOWISE mission has discovered some celestial objects traveling through our neighborhood, including one on the blurry line between asteroid and comet. An object called…