The seventh annual Robotics Mining Competition saw engineering teams from across the nation compete to design and build the most effective robotic excavation system.
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Using data from NASA’s Great Observatories, astronomers have found the best evidence yet for cosmic seeds in the early universe that should grow into supermassive black holes.
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NASA astronaut Kate Rubins will be available for live satellite interviews from Moscow on Wednesday, June 1, before her launch to the International Space Station. She will answer questions about her upcoming mission aboard the world’s only orbiting laboratory from 9-10 a.m. EDT, airing live on NASA Television and streaming on the agency’s website.
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NASA has a variety of resources for reporters covering 2016’s Atlantic Ocean and Eastern and Central Pacific hurricane seasons, including scientific animations in a resource reel that look inside hurricanes and daily updates with satellite data.
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NASA’s first spacecraft designed to return a piece of an asteroid to Earth arrived Friday at Kennedy Space Center to begin final preparations for a September launch.
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Our sun’s adolescence was stormy—and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been just the key to seeding life as we know it.
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Forty-four students from twenty-five community colleges have been selected to travel to NASA’s Johnson Space Center May 22 – 25 to participate in the NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) project.
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NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center released the first issue of its new online news magazine for young learners – NASA Next.
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Media accreditation now is open for the next SpaceX commercial cargo resupply services mission to the International Space Station, targeted for launch no earlier than approximately 1:32 a.m. EDT Saturday, July 16.
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NASA has opened accreditation for media to attend the September launch of the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid. NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security – Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft will travel to and collect surface material from the asteroid Bennu, and return it to Earth for study.
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