NASA’S WISE Mission Warms Up But Keeps Chugging Along

After completing its primary mission to map the infrared sky, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or…

NASA Mission Shows Evolution Of Conditions At Edge Of Solar System

New data from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft, reveal that conditions at the edge…

NASA and NSF-Funded Research Finds First Potentially Habitable Exoplanet

A team of planet hunters from the University of California (UC) Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie…

NASA, Newseum Invite Media To Discover And Encounter Comets

NASA will commemorate a quarter-century of comet discoveries and discuss upcoming comet encounters during a symposium…

NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting Same Star

NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet crossing…

NASA Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs In Space For First Time

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered carbon molecules, known as "buckyballs," in space for…

NASA’s WISE Mission Ready to Complete Extensive Sky Survey

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will complete its first survey of the entire sky…

NASA Awards Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment Contract

NASA has awarded the Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment project contract to General Dynamics C4 Systems…

NASA Releases Kepler Data On Potential Extrasolar Planets

NASA's Kepler Mission has released 43 days of science data on more than 156,000 stars.

NASA’S Swift Survey Finds ‘Smoking Gun’ Of Black Hole Activation

Data from an ongoing survey by NASA's Swift satellite have helped astronomers solve a decades-long mystery…