Successful Flight Through Enceladus Plume

The Cassini spacecraft has weathered the Monday, Nov. 2, 2009, flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus in…

Test Stand A-2 Peering Out from the Fog

At Stennis Space Center, three large engine test stands were built the early 1960s to test…

Prelaunch Preps Continue at Kennedy and Johnson

Final system checks on space shuttle Atlantis' aft, or back, section continue on Launch Pad 39A…

Poisk Poised for Live NASA TV Space Station Docking

NASA Television will air the docking of the newest Russian module to the International Space Station…

Valley View Elementary Students to Test-Drive Rovers

Fifth-grade students from Valley View Elementary School, Pleasanton, Calif., will experience robotic exploration by test-driving remote-controlled…

Ceremony Reset for ESA Handover of Tranquility to NASA

The transfer of ownership of the Tranquility node from the European Space Agency, or ESA, to…

NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life in Laboratory

NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary…

Kepler Mission Manager Update, Nov. 5, 2009

Kepler completed another science data download over October 18-19.

NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life in Laboratory

NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary…

Spring Bloom in New Zealand Waters

Off the east coast of New Zealand, cold rivers of water that have branched off from…