ESA’s Hershel Space Telescope Captures Incredible Views of Eagle Nebula
The European Space Agency’s Hershel space telescope has captured new, gorgeous views of the Eagle Nebula, located 6,500 light-years away in the Serpens constellation. The…
The European Space Agency’s Hershel space telescope has captured new, gorgeous views of the Eagle Nebula, located 6,500 light-years away in the Serpens constellation. The…
In hope that NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft will be able to transmit data through 2025, NASA has decided they need to further reduce its power…
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is spending its fifth winter on Mars and is now exploring a site known as “Greeley Haven.” Due to a…
NASA has started to move its inventory of the RS-25D flight engines to the Stennis Space Center for future use in the new heavy-lift launch…
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered the three smallest exoplanets ever detected. All of them are smaller than Earth, and the smallest is no larger than…
It took a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft to pull off the maneuver to refine its flight path while…
Kepler’s mission is to find potentially habitable planets around Earth size and smaller in a target region of the Milk Way galaxy. It’s had quite…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope made a rare discovery when looking deep into the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. Spotted was a population of rare blue stars in…
The largest galaxy cluster in the distant universe has been found and nicknamed “El Gordo,” which is much easier to say than the official name…
NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has mapped the entire sky twice with infrared light giving us a large mosaic image that showcases a vast…
A European Space Agency-led mission in combination with the Herschel Space Observatory and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope reveal new images of the Large and Small…
In an effort to learn how their technology will react to the hellish surface conditions on Venus, NASA engineers will put together a 12-ton toxic…
The Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, returned to Hawaii to study the Kilauea volcano. Mounted under NASA’s…
NASA’s RXTE has made many important scientific observations over its 16-year history and on January 4th, 2012 it sent its last observation to the ground…
As testing continues on the next deep space exploration vehicle, Orion received its final drop test in what was a series of worst-case landing scenarios…
On January 11, 2012, NASA is planning to conduct the biggest trajectory maneuver for the Science Laboratory Spacecraft on its mission to Mars. By precisely…
It’s amazing to think that a NASA telescope mounted in a specially modified Boeing 747SP jet can look into the heart of a nebula where…
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has taken its first close-up images of the asteroid Vesta, revealing tons of new detail. Vesta is located in the asteroid belt…