Kepler Launch in 2009

On Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, United Launch Alliance's Delta…

Veteran Space Shuttle Commander Chris Ferguson to Leave Agency

Astronaut Chris Ferguson, the last commander of a space shuttle mission, has announced his plans to…

NASA TV Moving to New Satellite; Liveshot Service Moving to Ku Band

Effective Dec. 19, 2011, NASA Television's Public, HD, Media and Education channels will be available for…

NASA Finds ‘Merging Tsunami’ Doubled Japan Destruction

NASA and Ohio State University researchers have discovered the major tsunami generated by the March 2011…

NASA’s Kepler Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-Like Star

NASA has announced a unique opportunity to ask the commander of the International Space Station a…

Kepler Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone

NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid…

NASA Gears Up for Study of Earth’s Radiation Balance

NASA scientists have completed tests in preparation for an airborne science campaign to study air entering…

NASA Unmanned Aircraft Measures Greenhouse Gases

NASA researchers have demonstrated the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle to collect very low altitude…

NASA’s Voyager Hits New Region at Solar System Edge

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space.…

First Supernova Companion Star found

In 2004, an international team of astronomers had, for the first time, observed a stellar "survivor"…