NASA Schedules Media Events and Coverage for New Solar Mission Launch

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is scheduled to launch at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27…

Marks on Martian Dunes May Reveal Tracks of Dry Ice Sleds

NASA research indicates hunks of frozen carbon dioxide - dry ice - may glide down some…

NASA Ames Hosts New Solar Mission Launch Events

Reporters are invited to interview team members at NASA Ames in addition to viewing live launch…

Gaia sunshade deployment

Animation showing the deployment of Gaia’s sunshade. During launch, the 10 m-wide sunshield is stowed against…

Earth from Space: Special edition

Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition,…

Space droids calling

Secondary-school students can play the ultimate robot game: the annual Zero Robotics tournament turns the International…

Weightless weak equivalence principle

During ten seconds of weightlessness Brynle Barrett from the Laboratory of Photonics, Numerical Sciences and Nanosciences…

M101

The face-on spiral galaxy M101, or the Pinwheel Galaxy, is seen at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths…

A very bright contortionist

The contorted object captured by Hubble in this picture is IRAS 22491-1808, also known as the…

NASA Awards Johnson Safety and Mission Assurance Contract

NASA has selected Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) of McLean, Va., to provide safety and mission…