Study finds barrage of small asteroids shattered moon’s upper crust. Scientists believe that about 4 billion years ago, during a period called the Late Heavy Bombardment, the moon took a severe beating, […]
Moon’s Crust As Fractured As Can Be
University Of Washington Researchers In Norway To Launch Rocket
September launch could give UW team rare measurements of ‘dusty plasmas’ Researchers from the University of Washington are awaiting the launch an over 50-foot-long rocket from a launch site in Norway into […]
NASA Television To Air Launch International Space Station Crew Today – 1:45 p.m. EDT, Sept. 1
The next three crew members bound for the International Space Station are set to launch to the orbital outpost Wednesday, Sept. 2. NASA Television launch coverage will begin at 11:45 p.m. EDT […]
Japan Cargo Ship Embarks On International Space Center Supply Mission
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla – After three botched missions to resupply the International Space Center since October, an unmanned cargo ship blasted off from southern Japan on Wednesday with food, water and gear […]
NASA, Microsoft Collaborate To Bring Science Fiction To Science Fact
by NASA NASA and Microsoft are teaming up to develop Sidekick, a new project using commercial technology to empower astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Sidekick uses Microsoft HoloLens to provide […]
NASA’s Hubble Finds Pluto’s Moons Tumbling In Absolute Chaos
by NASA If you lived on one of Pluto’s moons, you might have a hard time determining when, or from which direction, the sun will rise each day. Comprehensive analysis of data […]
Merging Galaxies Break Radio Silence
by ESA/Hubble Information Centre In the most extensive survey of its kind ever conducted, a team of scientists have found an unambiguous link between the presence of supermassive black holes that power […]
Critical NASA Research Returns To Earth Aboard U.S. SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft
by NASA SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 12:42 p.m. EDT Thursday with almost 3,100 pounds of NASA cargo from the International Space Station, including research on […]
SpaceX Demonstrates Astronaut Escape System For Crew Dragon Spacecraft
by NASA A loud whoosh, faint smoke trail and billowing parachutes marked a successful demonstration Wednesday by SpaceX of its Crew Dragon spacecraft abort system – an important step in NASA’s endeavor to […]
The View From Up There, Down Here
by NASA | Johnson Space Center When many people saw the first stunning photos of the fragile blue marble of Earth from space, it changed their outlook of humanity. It was a […]
Celestial Fireworks Celebrate Hubble’s 25th Anniversary
by ESA/Hubble Information Centre On 24 April 1990 the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was sent into orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery as the first space telescope of its kind. It offered […]
NASA Extends Campaign For Public To Name Features On Pluto
by NASA The public has until Friday, April 24 to help name new features on Pluto and its orbiting satellites as they are discovered by NASA’s New Horizons mission. Announced in March, […]
NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover Finishes Marathon, Clocks In At Just Over 11 Years
There was no tape draped across a finish line, but NASA is celebrating a win. The agency’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity completed its first Red Planet marathon Tuesday — 26.219 miles (42.195 […]
Colliding Stars Explain Enigmatic Seventeenth Century Explosion
New observations made with APEX and other telescopes reveal that the star that European astronomers saw appear in the sky in 1670 was not a nova, but a much rarer, violent breed […]
