NASA Hosts Kepler Spacecraft Status Teleconference Today

NASA will host a news teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, today, May 15, to discuss the…

NASA Probe Counts Space Rock Impacts On Mars

Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have estimated that the planet is bombarded…

NASA’S Hubble Space Telescope Finds Dead Stars ‘Polluted’ With Planet Debris

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place--…

NASA Astrophysicist Elected to National Academy of Sciences

NASA astrophysicist Chryssa Kouveliotou, a senior scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.,…

NASA Invites Public to Send Names and Messages to Mars

NASA is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online…

Herschel Completes Its ‘Cool’ Journey in Space

The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data,…

NASA’s Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color

Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new,…

Sofia Observations Reveal a Surprise in Massive Star Formation

Researchers using the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured the most detailed mid-infrared…

NASA Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test

An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has…

NASA Hosts Media Briefing to Discuss Kepler Planetary Discovery

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