The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a joint program by NASA and the German Aerospace Center, achieved a major milestone May 26, with its first in-flight night observations.
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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, has allowed scientists for the first time to comprehensively view the dynamic nature of storms on the sun.
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Presentation charts for the opening-day briefings of NASA’s Exploration Enterprise Workshop in Galveston, Texas, will be posted online at noon EDT, Monday, May 24.
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NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Project will pass a historic Martian longevity record on Thursday, May 20.
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NASA Announces Live Web Streaming Of Space Exploration Workshop And Telephone Media Briefing
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The first spacecraft designed by NASA to orbit Mercury is giving scientists a new perspective on the planet’s atmosphere and evolution.
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Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the existence of a baked object that could be called a “cometary planet.” The gas giant planet, named HD 209458b, is orbiting so close to its star that its heated atmosphere is escaping into space.
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NASA is offering undergraduate students an opportunity to test an experiment in weightless science as part of the agency’s Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program.
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a hypervelocity star – a rare phenomenon moving three times faster than our sun.
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NASA will host an interactive workshop to identify objectives for exploration missions to near-Earth objects, or NEOs, on Aug. 10-11 at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington.
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