Preparing Solar Satellite for Launch

VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – Technicians work on the payload fairing that will protect NASA's Interface Region…

X-48 Research: All good things must come to an end

After nearly six years, a successful and productive joint NASA-Boeing X-48 Hybrid / Blended Wing Body…

NASA'S Kepler Discovers its Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Planets to Date

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the…

The Horsehead Nebula in new light

This fly-through takes the observer on a journey into the famous constellation of Orion, to visit…

Starburst galaxy

Artist’s impression of starburst galaxy HFLS3. The galaxy appears as little more than a faint, red…

Riding a Vespa

The Proba-V minisatellite atop its Vega Secondary Payload Adapter

Proba-V is seated for flight

ESA’s Proba-V vegetation-mapping minisatellite has been fitted to the payload adapter and met its fellow passengers…

Proba-V on Vespa adapter

Proba-V atop the Vespa (Vega Secondary Payload Adapter) adapter on 15 April 2013. The minisatellite will ride the…

ARD pamphlet

The Forefront of Space Science: Towards Realization of a Soft Atmospheric Entry Vehicle