NASA Announces Global Best in Class Winners for the International Space Apps Challenge

A panel of international judges from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and other partner organizations…

NASA Hosts Google+ Hangout with Recently Returned Space Station Astronauts

NASA will host a Google+ Hangout with the three recently returned International Space Station astronauts from…

Herschel Space Observatory Finds Mega Merger of Galaxies

A massive and rare merging of two galaxies has been spotted in images taken by the…

California Governor Brown Meets Scientists at NASA Ames

Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. will join more than 500 world-renowned researchers and scientists May 23,…

Launching Balloons to Study Space Weather

In Antarctica in January, 2013 – the summer at the South Pole – scientists released 20…

Supersonic Laminar Flow Tests Continue on NASA’s F-15B

NASA Dryden's F-15B research aircraft flying small Aerion Corp. experimental test airfoil at supersonic speeds to…

Inauguration of ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre

Inauguration of ESA's Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre at ESRIN (Frascati, Italy) on 22 May 2013. This…

Reading radiation in space

Space can be a hostile and at times unpredictable environment. Although years of testing go into…

[release] Launch of the H-II Transfer Vehicle “KOUNOTORI4” (HTV4) Aboard the H-IIB Launch Vehicle No. 4

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) decided to launc

[release] Launch of Spectroscopic Planet Observatory for Recognitionof Interaction of Atmosphere (SPRINT-A) by Epsilon-1

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will launch the Spectroscopic Planet Observatory for Recognitiono