Media Accreditation Open For Launch Of NASA’s Next Mission To Mars

International and U.S. media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile…

NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target on Mars

The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Mars has selected a second target rock for…

NASA Spacecraft Will Visit Asteroid with New Name

An asteroid that will be explored by a NASA spacecraft has a new name, thanks to…

NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling…

NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn’s Rings

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of…

NASA Opens Media Accreditation for California Solar Mission Launch

News media planning to cover the launch of NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission on…

NASA’S Kepler Discovers its Smallest ‘Habitable Zone’ Planets to Date

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the…

NASA Associate Administrator Statements on the Asteroid Initiative in the FY 2014 Budget Request

The following are statements from the associate administrators of NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate,…

NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation

NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and…

Hubble Breaks Record in Search for Farthest Supernova

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the farthest supernova so far of the type used to…