NEXT SHUTTLE MISSION MAYBE MARCH

NASA is targeting March for the next Space Shuttle mission (STS-121). The mission will be the…

STUDENT EXPERIMENTS FROM SPACE STATION

When the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery returned today from their historic mission, they brought…

HIDDEN, HUNGRY BLACK HOLES

Most of the biggest black holes in the universe have been eating cosmic meals behind closed…

AERONAUTICAL CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE

NASA and the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation announced their intention to pursue the first…

MESSENGER EARTH SWINGBY

NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, headed toward the first study of Mercury from orbit, swung by Earth on…

CHANDRA SOLVES SOLAR PARADOX

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory survey of nearby sun-like stars suggests there is nearly three times more…

NEW CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE

NASA, in collaboration with the Volanz Aerospace Inc./Spaceflight America (Volanz), today announced a new Centennial Challenges…

CASSINI FINDS UNUSUAL GEOLOGY

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has obtained new detailed images of the south polar region of Saturn’s moon…

NEW MARS ORBITER

NASA’s next mission to Mars will examine it in unprecedented detail from low orbit. It will…

Smoke Alarms

NASA researchers have successfully tested a new generation of fire detectors that could significantly reduce the…