NASA engineers have successfully completed heat shield testing of an Adaptive Deployable Entry and Placement Technology (ADEPT) model under conditions akin to entering the Martian…
NASA is working on the technology that will enable an actual trip to Mars in the 2030s. On August 7, 1972, in the heart of…
Astronomers believe that radio waves coming from supersonic stars will help them find stars that no one has seen before. The center of our Milky…
Scientists from the Berkeley Lab have created a new statistical analysis model designed to enhance one of modern astronomy’s most time-tested tools: sky surveys. The…
Miniaturized satellites, known as nanosatellites or CubeSats, are small platforms that enable the next generation of scientists and engineers to complete all phases of a…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft has begun downlinking the data is has collected on its mission to the Pluto system. The entire process will take about…
Soyuz TMA-18M successfully launched with its three crew members representing Russia, Denmark and Kazakhstan. They are headed to the International Space Station to provide a…
Comet Hitchhiker is in Phase I study through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program. Its goal is to use the kinetic energy of comets and…
New research suggests that magnesium peroxide may be abundant in extremely oxidized mantles and cores of rocky planets outside our Solar System. As astronomers continue…
NASA scientists have selected the small Kuiper Belt object (KBO) known as 2014 MU69 as the next potential destination for the New Horizons mission. 2014…
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggests that if life can travel between the stars (in a process called panspermia), it would…
NASA’s Space Launch System Program has completed its review — another step forward for the program that will help launch astronauts on missions to an…
With the help of the Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers and scientists continue to search for another Earth-like planet. The discovery of a super-Earth-sized planet orbiting…
Engineers are investigating the feasibility of creating a windbot, a new class of robotic probe designed to stay aloft in a planet’s atmosphere for a…
A research partnership between NASA’s Human Research Program and the Russian Space Agency is helping to prepare us for the journey to Mars. NASA and…
Airbus Defence & Space in France has been selected as the prime industrial contractor for ESA’s JUICE mission to Jupiter and its icy moons. The…
Follow along as researchers discuss the search for evidence of habitability in our solar system and beyond during the 2015 Astrobiology Science Conference. NASA and…
Similar to when early explorers crossed vast oceans to reach new worlds, NASA engineers and scientists now are developing the tools that will allow astronauts…
