NASA Evaluates How Crew Will Exit Orion Spacecraft

When astronauts return to Earth from destinations beyond the moon in NASA’s Orion spacecraft and splashdown…

NASA Neutron Star Mission Begins Science Operations

The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, payload completed commissioning and calibration and all systems…

NASA Langley and the Space Race

Neil Armstrong trained for the Apollo 11 mission at NASA Langley's Lunar Landing Research Facility on…

NASA Offers Space Station as Catalyst for Discovery in Washington

NASA astronauts, scientists and engineers will join industry and academia for a three-day, in-depth conversation about…

Hubble Traps a Lynx Barred Spiral

NGC 2500 is a particular kind of spiral galaxy known as a barred spiral, its wispy…

NASA Awards Mission Systems Operations Contract

NASA has awarded a contract to Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc., of Greenbelt, Maryland, for support of…

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (Enhanced Color)

This enhanced-color image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was created by citizen scientist Gerald Eichstädt using…

NASA Opens Media Accreditation for Upcoming Space Station Cargo Launch

Media accreditation is open for launch of the next SpaceX commercial cargo resupply services mission to…

Looking Back: Aircraft Engineering Research Conference at Langley’s Full Scale Tunnel, 1934

This year, NASA is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton,…

Hidden Stars May Make Planets Appear Smaller

In the search for planets similar to our own, an important point of comparison is the…