NASA’s Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission
An international team of astronomers has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA’s Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission. Among the findings tallying 197 initial planet...
NASA Says ‘Happy Birthday’ to John Glenn
Former astronaut and U.S. Senator John H. Glenn celebrates his 95th birthday today. In 1962, Glenn climbed aboard his Mercury capsule (the Friendship 7, seen above) and became the first American to...
More than Two Tons of New Equipment Bound for Station Following Blazing Liftoff
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station can expect almost 5,000 pounds of new hardware and experiments in two days following Monday’s early-morning liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9...
NASA Sails Full-Speed Ahead in Solar System Exploration
NASA’s Juno is now poised to shine a spotlight on the origins and interior structure of the largest planet in our solar system. As we wait for Juno’s first close-up images of Jupiter (to be...
NASA’s Next Mars Rover Progresses Toward 2020 Launch
After an extensive review process and passing a major development milestone, NASA is ready to proceed with final design and construction of its next Mars rover, currently targeted to launch in the...
Astronauts Talk about Research on the ISS
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams and newly arrived Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA discussed their research and activities on the orbital laboratory...
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-orbit View
The JunoCam camera aboard NASA’s Juno mission is operational and sending down data after the spacecraft’s July 4 arrival at Jupiter. Juno’s visible-light camera was turned on six days after...
‘Frankenstein’ Galaxy Surprises Astronomers
About 250 million light-years away, there’s a neighborhood of our universe that astronomers had considered quiet and unremarkable. But now, scientists have uncovered an enormous, bizarre...
