NASA, Boeing Announce Astronaut Changes for Upcoming Starliner Crew Flight Test
Veteran NASA astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore will join astronauts Mike Fincke and Nicole Mann for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, the inaugural crewed flight of…
Veteran NASA astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore will join astronauts Mike Fincke and Nicole Mann for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, the inaugural crewed flight of…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) spent nearly a year imaging the northern sky in its search for worlds beyond our solar system. Explore this…
During a 2012 expedition to Antarctica, a team of Japanese and Belgian researchers picked up a small rock that appeared coal black against the snow…
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus space freighter is open for business just five hours after it was attached to the International Space Station today. The Expedition 63…
What are some skywatching highlights in October 2020? Not one, but two, full Moons; Mars at opposition; and finding the Andromeda galaxy. Highlights October is…
It’s the first time machine learning has been used to find previously unknown craters on the Red Planet. Sometime between March 2010 and May 2012,…
Cyclones at the north pole of Jupiter appear as swirls of striking colors in this extreme false-color rendering of an image from NASA’s Juno mission….
While passing over northern Utah, an astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) captured this photograph of an eastern portion of the Great Salt Lake….
At around 60 million light-years from Earth, the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 is captured beautifully in this image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space…
Science typically begins with a question. It may be: “How will astronauts maintain a nutritious diet on long-duration missions?” Or “How can the way metals…
The process of building landing pads, habitats, and roads on the Moon will likely look different than the common construction site on Earth. Excavation robots,…
When a star unleashes as much energy in a matter of days as our Sun does in several billion years, you know it’s not going…
Americans exercise their right to vote from all over the world, and for November’s election, few ballots will have traveled as far as those cast by…
It’s the space-age old question: how do astronauts go to the bathroom in space? The most basic human biological processes becomes challenging off-planet due in…
What are some skywatching highlights in October 2020? Not one, but two, full Moons; Mars at opposition; and finding the Andromeda galaxy. Video Transcript: What’s…
NASA is headed back to the Moon as part of the Artemis program – and the agency’s “worm” logo will be along for the ride…
After a brief lull, a late-September heat wave reinvigorated California’s already brutal 2020 fire season. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-20…
A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with nearly 8,000 pounds (3,600 kilograms) of scientific investigations, technology…