ATV-4 Albert Einstein is fully encased in its fairing ahead of launch on board an Ariane…
NASA’s Grail Mission Solves Mystery of Moon’s Surface Gravity
NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions…
Radiation Measured by NASA’s Curiosity on Voyage to Mars has Implications for Future Human Missions
Measurements taken by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission as it delivered the Curiosity rover to…
Landsat 8 Satellite Begins Watch
NASA transferred operational control Thursday of the Landsat 8 satellite to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)…
Artist’s Rendering of an Asteroid Capture
This artist's rendering shows what capturing an asteroid could look like. NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes…
Actor Jaden Smith Focuses on Earth Science in a New NASA PSA
Jaden Smith, star of Columbia Pictures' movie "After Earth," is featured in a new NASA public…
Expedition 36: How to follow the new ISS mission
Although Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is firmly back on Earth, that doesn’t mean it’s time to…
Moon zoom
Technology image of the week: A vision-based navigation system for planetary landings, tested at ESA using…
Pinpoint vision-based landings on Moon, Mars and asteroids
A new vision-based navigation software system for autonomous planetary landings, tested at ESA using a scale-model…
Northwestern Crete
This image shows northwestern Crete, the largest and most populous of the Greek islands. It is a…