The sun rises over the Atlantic Ocean silhouetting space shuttle Atlantis' external fuel tank and solid…
New Mars rover arrives at Florida launch site
NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory, a nuclear-powered, car-sized rover designed to assess the planet's suitability…
Shuttle and Crew Preparations Under Way for Final Flight
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians at Launch Pad 39A Thursday night wrapped up…
NASA, NSF Collaborate to Develop Advanced Robotics
The National Science Foundation (NSF) will take the lead with NASA and two other federal agencies…
SOFIA Successfully Observes Challenging Pluto Occultation
On June 23, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) observed the dwarf planet Pluto as…
NASA Will Host 150 People For Tweetup At Launch Of Jupiter-Bound Mission
NASA will host a two-day launch Tweetup for 150 of its Twitter followers on Aug. 4…
First TV Image of Mars
A 'real-time data translator' machine converted a Mariner 4 digital image data into numbers printed on…
STS-135 Countdown Rehearsal Complete
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning, the four Atlantis astronauts put on their…