NASA Begins Study of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
A NASA airborne mission designed to transform our understanding of Earth’s valuable and ecologically sensitive coral reefs has set up shop in Australia for a two-month investigation of the...
Antarctica Provides ICE to Study Behavior Effects in Astronauts
A trip to the Red Planet begins long in advance of liftoff. NASA’s journey to Mars includes preparing astronauts to cope with several months of isolation, confinement, and in an extreme environment...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Speeds Toward Asteroid Rendezvous
NASA’s first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at 7:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, beginning a journey that could revolutionize our...
NASA to Hold Asteroid Mission Briefings, Launch
NASA is gearing up to launch the United States’ first mission to sample an asteroid, with activities at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida beginning Tuesday, Sept. 6, and culminating with...
Jupiter’s Extended Family? A Billion or More
Our galaxy is home to a bewildering variety of Jupiter-like worlds: hot ones, cold ones, giant versions of our own giant, pint-sized pretenders only half as big around. Astronomers say that in our...
NASA’s Juno to Soar Closest to Jupiter today
This Saturday at 5:51 a.m. PDT, (8:51 a.m. EDT, 12:51 UTC) NASA’s Juno spacecraft will get closer to the cloud tops of Jupiter than at any other time during its prime mission. At the moment of...
Jeff Williams Racks Up New Time-Spent-In-Space Record
You don’t have to go to Rio to see Americans breaking records – you can find one orbiting 250 miles above Earth. On Wednesday, Aug. 24, NASA astronaut and Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams...
NOAA’s GOES-R Arrives at NASA Kennedy for Launch Processing
NOAA’s GOES-R satellite arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility from Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Littleton, Colorado, on Aug. 22 aboard a U.S. Air Force C-5...
