
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a…

Astronaut John Glenn inspects artwork that will be painted on the outside of his Mercury spacecraft, which he nicknamed Friendship…

The shipping containers for the HTV-4 payloads are loaded for transport to Chicago.

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New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology professor Andrei Zagrai checks out the prototype data acquisition system during bench testing…

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology engineering student Jon Schlavin conducts bench testing of the prototype data acquisition system…

Near Space Corporation technician Mark Williamson and assistants check the prototype structural integrity data acquisition payload.

The NSC balloon carrying the NMT prototype data acquisition payload begins its ascent from the Madras, Ore., airport.

Earth is surrounded by a giant magnetic bubble, called the magnetosphere.

The Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, Dragon spacecraft stands inside a processing hangar at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in…