COSMIC MAGNIFYING GLASS REVEALS PLANET

Like Sherlock Holmes holding a magnifying glass to unveil hidden clues, modern day astronomers used cosmic…

SEDNA MYSTERY DEEPENS WITH HUBBLE IMAGES OF FARTHEST PLANETOID

Astronomers studying 35 NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of the solar system’s farthest known object,…

SCIENTISTS TO WORK TOGETHER WHILE MILES APART

For the first time, researchers thousands of miles away can study laboratory specimens by remotely operating…

HISTORIC SPACE FLIGHTS

April 12 is a great day in the history of spaceflight, marking the 43rd anniversary of…

ISS STATUS REPORT: SS04-05

Work to prepare for the eighth International Space Station crew exchange continued on schedule on the…

ISS STATUS REPORT: SS04-04

April 9, 2004 Three weeks remain in the six-month voyage aboard the International Space Station for…

GRAVITY PROBE B MISSION LAUNCHES

The NASA space vehicle designed to test two important predictions of Albert Einstein’s Theory of General…

SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT: S04-06

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

NASA EXTENDS MARS ROVERS’ MISSION

NASA has approved an extended mission for the Mars Exploration Rovers, handing them up to five…

TWO STORMS CAUGHT IN THE ACT ON SATURN

Three months before Saturn arrival, the Cassini spacecraft caught two storms in the act of merging…