Stephen Colbert Salutes the STS-135 Crew

Stephen Colbert, host of The Colbert Report, salutes the crew of STS-135 during their appearance for…

NASA Names Terry Wilcutt Agency Safety Chief

WASHINGTON -- Terrence W. Wilcutt has been appointed NASA's chief of safety and mission assurance, effective…

Opportunity’s Heat Shield

This image from 2005 shows the remains of the heat shield from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover…

NASA Hosts News Briefing About Tracking Space Weather Events

NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Aug. 18, to discuss new…

NASA’S Exploration Associate Administrator Doug Cooke To Retire

Doug Cooke, who worked for nearly 38 years in NASA's space shuttle, International Space Station and…

Space Shuttle Crew to Discuss Final Mission at NASA Ames

NASA's space shuttle Atlantis astronauts will be available for interviews and to discuss their mission to…

Preparing for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle for Testing

Standing five stories tall fully stacked, the Launch Abort System was mounted atop the Orion MPCV,…

Mississippi And Louisiana Students To Call Space Station Astronauts

Students gathered at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi will place a long distance…

TEDxNASA@Siliconvalley On Aug. 17 Will Be Streamed Online

The TEDxNASA@SiliconValley event, which will feature presentations on "extreme green ideas," will be streamed live online…

A Textbook Example of Colliding Galaxies

VV 340, also known as Arp 302, provides a textbook example of colliding galaxies seen in…