NASA Sets Launch Date for Space Shuttle Discovery Mission

Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to begin an 11-day mission to the International Space Station with…

Warm Up At NASA’s Sun-Earth Day Tweetup; Registration Opens Feb. 22

NASA will randomly select 100 registrants to participate in the Sun-Earth Day Tweetup March 19 at…

Intertank Door Closed; Astronauts Prep for Quarantine

Technicians preparing space shuttle Discovery for next week's launch closed the intertank door on the shuttle's…

NASA Awards Test Evaluation And Support Team Contract

NASA selected Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tenn., to provide test evaluation and support services at…

NASA Seeks K-12 Educators To Defy Gravity, Conduct Research

For the first time, NASA is offering teachers from across the country an opportunity usually reserved…

NASA Highlights At American Association For The Advancement Of Science Annual Meeting

NASA researchers will discuss a wide range of scientific and space exploration topics at the 2011…

Majestic Disk of Stars

The Hubble Space Telescope revealed this majestic disk of stars and dust lanes in this view…

STS-133 Launch Preps Move Ahead; ATV-2 Aims to Launch Today

If the European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle-2 launches as scheduled at 4:50 p.m. EST today,…

NASA Teleconference About Nonprofit Management Of Space Station

NASA released today a final version of a cooperative agreement notice (CAN) for an independent, nonprofit…

Herschel Measures Dark Matter Required for Star-Forming Galaxies

The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed how much dark matter it takes to form a new…