An effort to engage and educate underrepresented middle and high school students has earned two NASA Langley employees national recognition.
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NASA’s scientific balloon program is resuming flights this month after an extensive evaluation of its safety processes following a mishap during an April launch attempt from Australia.
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An international team of scientists studying remnants of an asteroid that crashed into the Nubian Desert in October 2008 discovered it contained at least 10 different types of meteorites.
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NASA named Richard Keegan as the agency’s associate deputy administrator on Thursday. He replaces Charles Scales, who has held the position since April 2007. Scales is retiring.
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NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover is getting important tips from an orbiting spacecraft as it explores areas that might hold clues about past Martian environments.
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NASA’s Mars Odyssey, which launched in 2001, will break the record Wednesday for longest-serving spacecraft at the Red Planet.
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A low pressure system designated System 91S is spinning in the Southern Indian Ocean, and NASA’s Aqua satellite captured infrared and visible images of it earlier today.
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During a regularly scheduled contact with the Kepler spacecraft on Dec. 13, 2010, the project team discovered Kepler had experienced an anomaly. Kepler was found in coarse point attitude, as opposed to finepoint.
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has found possible ice volcanoes on Saturn’s moon Titan that are similar in shape to those on Earth that spew molten rock.
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NASA will conduct a tanking test at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Dec. 17, to evaluate repairs made to space shuttle Discovery’s external fuel tank.
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