NASA honored former astronaut Edgar Mitchell for his involvement in the Apollo space program with the…
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MAGNETIC FIELD MISSION ENDS
NASA’s Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) satellite recently ceased operations, bringing to a close a…
Next International Space Station Crew
NASA and its international partners have selected astronaut Jeffrey Williams and Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov as…
Comet Dust Around Dead Star
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope spotted what may be comet dust sprinkled around the white dwarf star…
Thousands of Orion Nebula Stars
In one of the most detailed astronomical images ever produced, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an…
NASA loans Rocket Engine to Rocketplane
NASA is loaning a rocket engine to Rocketplane Limited, Inc. of Oklahoma City as part of…
Black Holes Creating Havoc
Black holes are creating havoc in unsuspected places, according to a new study of images of…
Magnetic Field Mission Ends
NASA’s Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) satellite recently ceased operations, bringing to a close a…
Polaris – a Triple Star
By stretching the capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to the limit, astronomers photographed the close…
TOPEX/Poseidon Mission ends
The joint NASA/Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales TOPEX/Poseidon oceanography satellite ceased operations after nearly 62,000 orbits of…