SURPRISING ANATOMY OF A COMET

Findings from a historic encounter between NASA’s Stardust spacecraft and a comet revealed much stranger findings…

REMOTE HEALTH MONITORS

A lightweight, portable device developed by NASA scientists is enabling physicians to monitor the health and…

HURRICANES MAY HELP PLANKTON BLOOM

Whenever a hurricane races across the Atlantic Ocean, chances are phytoplankton will bloom behind it. According…

ISS STATUS REPORT: SS04-014

The International Space Station (ISS) crew is spending its seventh week onboard the orbiting laboratory continuing…

SAFER SHUTTLE SOLID ROCKET MOTOR

NASA’s Space Shuttle program successfully fired a full-scale Reusable Solid Rocket Motor, testing modifications that will…

RESEARCH ON AFRICAN MONSOONS

NASA and University of Maryland scientists have found the African monsoon consists of two distinct seasons.…

SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT: S04-15

The Space Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. The…

CASSINI SPACECRAFT NEARS SATURN TOUR

The most complex interplanetary mission ever launched is about to meet one of the solar system’s…

SAFARI VIA VAST AFRICAN TOPOGRAPHY

Newly released topographic data sets from NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) provide twenty first…

PRESIDENT REAGAN HONORED FROM SPACE

Astronaut Mike Fincke and cosmonaut Gennady Padalka paid tribute to President Ronald Reagan during a video…