Mission engineers load the final cargo into the Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard the Northrop Grumman Antares…
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A “Jellyfish” Galaxy Swims Into View of NASA’s Upcoming Webb Telescope
Webb will target sites of star formation at different points along the tail: close to the…
Luca Parmitano training for second mission
This Summer ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will fly to the International Space Station from the Baikonur…
NASA Announces First Flight, Record-Setting Mission
NASA and its International Space Station partners have set a new schedule and new crew assignments…
Very bright fireball over New Jersey and Delaware
A very bright fireball was recorded over New Jersey and Delaware at 02:57 UTC on April…
Mirror, mirror
Technology image of the week: a vintage image of a 121-segment mirror array being installed inside…
Deep Space X-ray Burst Gives Astronomers New Signal To Detect Neutron Star Merger
An international team of astronomers, including faculty and alumni from UNLV, has discovered a new way…
NASA’s New Flying Robots: Bee-ing in Space for the First Time
Bees are known to be both busy and hard-working, and NASA’s new free-flying space robots, called…
Owen Garriott, 88, an Early Scientist-Astronaut, Is Dead
He was the science pilot on the record-breaking 59-day mission to Skylab in 1973. Ten years…
Media Invited to NASA Social Media Event Featuring SOFIA Flying Observatory
Media are invited to a behind-the-scenes tour and briefing of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy,…