DIGGING MOON DIRT

NASA announced the Regolith Excavation Challenge, a new Centennial Challenges prize competition that will award $250,000…

NEXT GENERATION SPACECRAFT

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin today released the results of the agency’s exploration architecture study – a…

MOST DISTANT EXPLOSION

Scientists using NASA’s Swift satellite and several ground-based telescopes have detected the most distant explosion yet,…

SOFTWARE OF THE YEAR AWARD

NASA selected two teams to receive the agency’s Software of the Year Award. A team from…

DEEP IMPACT

Painting by the numbers is a good description of how scientists create pictures of everything from…

SPIRIT ON MARS

Working atop a range of Martian hills, NASA’s Spirit rover is rewarding researchers with tempting scenes…

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope entered a new era of science operations this week, when engineers shut…

UNDERSEA LAB

NASA is sending three astronauts and a Cincinnati doctor to test new space medicine concepts and…

DESERT “RATS”

Meaningful exploration in the hostile environs of the moon and Mars will depend on mobility. Tough,…

ENCELADUS TIGER STRIPES

The Cassini spacecraft discovered the long, cracked features dubbed “tiger stripes” on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus…