On Aug. 3, 2004, NASA’s Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft began a…
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NASA’s WISE Survey Finds Thousands of New Stars, But No ‘Planet X’
After searching hundreds of millions of objects across our sky, NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)…
NASA Selects 10 Proposals for Unprecedented Twin Astronaut Study
Only one set of twins has ever been into space, and now those twins are providing…
NASA Television Set to Cover March Soyuz Landing Operations
Three crew members aboard the International Space Station are scheduled to end almost six months on…
NASA Officials to View New Solar Array System at Ohio’s Plum Brook Station
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Associate Administrator for Space Technology Michael Gazarik will visit the agency's…
Martian Sand Dunes in Spring
Mars’ northern-most sand dunes are beginning to emerge from their winter cover of seasonal carbon dioxide…
NASA Radar Demonstrates Ability to Foresee Sinkholes
New analyses of NASA airborne radar data collected in 2012 reveal the radar detected indications of…
NASA’s Hubble Telescope Witnesses Asteroid’s Mysterious Disintegration
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has recorded the never-before-seen break-up of an asteroid into as many as…
SOFIA’s Target of Opportunity: Observing Supernova 2014J
NASA's flying observatory focused four February flights on a supernova explosion that obliterated the remains of…
NASA Coverage Set for March 16 SpaceX Mission to Space Station
The next SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract…