NASA’s Grail Mission Solves Mystery of Moon’s Surface Gravity

NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions…

NASA’s WISE Mission Finds Lost Asteroid Family Members

Data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to a new and improved family…

NASA’S Hubble Space Telescope Reveals the Ring Nebula’s True Shape

The Ring Nebula's distinctive shape makes it a popular illustration for astronomy books. But new observations…

Herschel Space Observatory Finds Mega Merger of Galaxies

A massive and rare merging of two galaxies has been spotted in images taken by the…

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,…