Jupiter's moon Europa has a crust made up of blocks, which are thought to have broken apart and 'rafted' into…
A mock-up of the Orion crew exploration vehicle floats in the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean. NASA engineers are…
On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary, from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay, from Nepal, became the first humans to successfully…
Boeing’s remotely piloted X-48B Blended Wing Body aircraft completed its 50th flight recently at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center. The…
Steve Volz, associate director for flight programs at NASA's Science Mission Directorate, detailed how NASA's specialized science aircraft are critical…
Recently retired Dryden center director Kevin Petersen outlined the lengthy and involved process in acquiring the former B-1B bomber assembly…
Dignitaries who participated in the dedication of the NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., included (from left), Mayor…
The All-American Canal, the largest irrigation canal in the world and a key landmark along the U.S.-Mexico border, is the…
This Landsat 7 image of Guinea-Bissau, a small country in West Africa, shows the complex patterns of the country's shallow…
The most successful of the pre-Apollo probes, Lunar Orbiter photographically mapped the equatorial regions of the moon. These maps, compiled…
