BICEP2: The non-scientist’s guide to the Big Bang-era discovery

On Monday, a team of U.S. scientists announced they’d found evidence of rapid expansion from the…

Understanding Earth’s winds

ESA’s ADM-Aeolus wind mission will provide timely and accurate profiles of the world’s winds and further…

Coverage Set for Next Space Station Crew Launch

NASA Television will broadcast prelaunch activities for the next three crew members flying to the International…

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Solar Orbiter Mission

NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC of Centennial, Colo., to launch the Solar Orbiter Collaboration…

NASA Announces Small Business Industry Awards

NASA announced Tuesday the recipients of the agency's Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 Small Business Industry Awards…

NASA Releases First Interactive Mosaic of Lunar North Pole

Scientists, using cameras aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), have created the largest high resolution mosaic…

NASA Releases First Interactive Mosaic of Lunar North Pole

Scientists, using cameras aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), have created the largest high resolution mosaic…

Thomas Skinsuit

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet testing Skinsuit in weightlessness…

Doorway to space

Technology image of the week: the engineer’s entrance to Europe’s largest vacuum chamber

Herschel survey in infrared

Collage of galaxies included in the Herschel Reference Survey, the largest census of cosmic dust in…