The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), an advisory committee that reports to NASA and Congress, has…
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UPDATE: NASA Advisory Panel Releases 2015 Safety Report
The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), an advisory committee that reports to NASA and Congress, has…
New Seafloor Map Helps Scientists Find New Features
An international scientific team recently published a new map of the ocean floor based on Earth’s…
Tim Peake Prepares For Friday’s Spacewalk
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) shared this photo taken aboard the International Space…
Starburst Spider
Mars' seasonal cap of carbon dioxide ice has eroded many beautiful terrains as it sublimates (goes…
Hubble Sees a Supermassive and Super-hungry Galaxy
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, located over 65 million…
Galaxy Cluster IDCS 1426
Astronomers have made the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster using…
NASA Research Reveals Biological Clock Misalignment Effects on Sleep for Astronauts
Since the beginning of the space program, astronauts have dealt with the realities of microgravity effects,…
NASA Awards Contract for Aerospace Facilities Support
NASA has awarded a contract to Jacobs Technology of Tullahoma, Tennessee, to provide support for testing,…
Student-Built Experiment Integrated onto NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission
The Regolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) will determine elemental abundances on the surface of asteroid Bennu.