Apollo 17 Commander Eugene A. Cernan received NASA’s first Ambassador of Exploration Award during a special…
GAMMA-RAY BURST
NASA scientists have, for the first time, detected and pinned down the location of a short…
New moon making waves
The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft has confirmed earlier suspicions of an unseen moon hidden in a gap…
HIGH ALTITUDE RESEARCH
NASA and student researchers at four universities combined efforts to analyze characteristics of the Earth’s atmosphere…
Dust Storms linked to health risk
Medical researchers are using satellites to track massive dust storms blowing across Africa’s Sahel belt. The…
Angolan Marburg outbreak
World Health Organisation personnel combating an Angolan outbreak of the lethal Marburg virus used high-resolution satellite-based…
X-RAY SUPER-FLARES
New results from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory about the Orion Nebula imply super-flares torched our young…
Crater Holden and Uzboi Vallis
These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft,…
SYRACUSE IIIA
France’s SYRACUSE IIIA military telecommunications satellite has arrived at the Spaceport in French Guiana and is…
SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT: S05-017
NASA’s Space Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. Mission: STS-114…