May 13, 1992, Record-Setting Spacewalk on Shuttle Endeavour’s First Mission

On May 13, 1992, following the successful capture of the Intelsat VI satellite, three astronauts continue…

Comet on 3 May 2015 – NavCam

This single frame Rosetta navigation camera image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken on 3 May 2015…

DirecTV-15 and SKY México-1 are integrated for their Arianespace heavy-lift mission with Ariane 5

Arianespace's upcoming mission to orbit two direct-to-home broadcast satellites from the Spaceport in French Guiana has…

Oceans and space

Our oceans cover about 70 percent of Earth’s surface, and we’ve long known that they are…

NASA Cohosts Forum on Managing Expanding Unmanned Aerial System Traffic

NASA and the Silicon Valley chapter of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) are…

International Space Station Partners Adjust Spacecraft Schedule

NASA and its international partners agreed Tuesday to set a new schedule for spacecraft traffic to…

NASA Research Reveals Europa’s Mystery Dark Material Could Be Sea Salt

NASA experiments suggest the dark material coating some geological features of Jupiter's moon Europa is likely…

Early Morning Sunrise Over the Grand Canyon

From the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Terry Virts took this photograph of an early morning…

Attracted by light

This abstract picture taken from the International Space Station shows fishing boats illuminating the sea to…

NASA Airborne Mission to Focus on Polar Winds

NASA’s DC-8 aircraft began a series of science flights based out of Keflavik, Iceland, on May…