Largest object ever jettisoned from ISS to make uncontrolled re-entry this week

The International Space Station’s (ISS) largest-ever discarded object, a hefty equipment pallet weighing 2.9 tons, is…

How do animals react during a total solar eclipse? Scientists plan to find out in April

A gorilla family is observed by people visiting the Fort Worth Zoo in Fort Worth, Texas,…

NASA’s Network of Small Moon-Bound Rovers Is Ready to Roll

Construction and testing are complete on the CADRE rovers, which will map the lunar surface together…

a Long Year for a ‘Cold Saturn’

The decades-long hunt for exoplanets – planets around other stars – has so far yielded more…

20 Years Ago: First Image of Earth from Mars and Other Postcards of Home

On March 8, 2004, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took the first image of Earth from…

Observations inspect variability of a nearby ultra-fast rotating active star

XMM-Newton RGS2 X-ray light curve of AB Doradus A with a 300-sec bin size. The red…

NASA Sets Science Webinar Coverage for Space Station Resupply Mission

In preparation for NASA’s SpaceX 30th commercial resupply mission, the agency will stream an International Space…

NASA Sets Science Webinar Coverage for Space Station Resupply Mission

In preparation for NASA’s SpaceX 30th commercial resupply mission, the agency will stream an International Space…

AI makes a rendezvous in space

Researchers from the Stanford Center for AEroSpace Autonomy Research (CAESAR) in the robotic testbed, which can…

Texas Students to Hear from NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station

The San Antonio River Authority and students from the Advanced Learning Academy in San Antonio, Texas,…