NASA Selects Research Teams for New Virtual Institute

NASA has selected nine research teams from seven states for a new institute that will bring…

NASA Hosts NASA TV News Briefing on Upcoming Mars Mission

NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 28, to discuss the…

NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Finds Ingredient of Household Plastic in Space

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, a chemical used to make food-storage containers, car bumpers and…

NASA’s Deep Space Comet Hunter Mission Comes to an End

After almost 9 years in space that included an unprecedented July 4th impact and subsequent flyby…

NASA Invites Children, Families to Learn About NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Mission

The Sunday Experiment is a free afternoon for children of all ages and their families to…

NASA-Funded Scientists Detect Water on Moon’s Surface that Hints at Water Below

NASA-funded lunar research has yielded evidence of water locked in mineral grains on the surface of…

IRIS Mission Gets First Look at Sun’s Mysterious Interface Region

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft has captured its first observations of a region of…

NASA Releases Images of Earth Taken By Distant Spacecraft

Color and black-and-white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft July 19 show our…

NASA Interplanetary Probes to Take Pictures of Earth from Space

Two NASA spacecraft, one studying the Saturn system, the other observing Mercury, are maneuvering into place…

NASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet

Astronomers making visible-light observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have deduced the actual color of a…