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…

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,…