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…