Community College Scholars Selected To Design Robotic Rovers

Eighty students from community colleges in 28 states and Puerto Rico have been selected to travel…

The Art of Making Stars

Rho Ophiuchi might look like an abstract painting, but this splash of colors is in fact…

SOFIA Completes First Flight of German Instrument

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, completed its first science flight Wednesday, April 6,…

Is the Moon Titan Shaped By Weather, or Ice Volcanoes?

Have the surface and belly of Saturn's smog-shrouded moon, Titan, recently simmered like a chilly, bubbling…

NASA Telescopes Join Forces To Observe Unprecedented Explosion

NASA's Swift satellite, Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to study one…

Breakthrough Study Confirms Cause Of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

A new supercomputer simulation shows the collision of two neutron stars can naturally produce the magnetic…

Tests on AMS Ongoing, No External Tank Foam Repairs Needed

Engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will continue ground support equipment evaluations at Launch…

Nobel Prize Winner Baruch Blumberg Dies

Nobel Prize winner Dr. Baruch "Barry" Blumberg, who served as the first director of the NASA…

Baruch Blumberg Dies of Apparent Heart Attack

Dr. Baruch "Barry" Blumberg, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine and a former director…

Pad Storm Data Reviewed, Payload Testing Today

Engineers will meet today to review all data collected following severe storms that hit NASA's Kennedy…