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