PLUTO SPACE PROBE

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft arrived at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on Saturday for final preparations…

BLUE STARS AROUND BLACK HOLE

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding…

Mars Orbiter

New gullies that did not exist in mid-2002 have appeared on a Martian sand dune. That’s…

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…