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NASA and Korean Space Agency Discuss Space Cooperation
NASA and Korean Space Agency Discuss Space Cooperation

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and the president of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Seung Jo Kim, met in Washington…

NASA’s Chandra Sees Eclipsing Planet in X-rays for First Time
NASA’s Chandra Sees Eclipsing Planet in X-rays for First Time

For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, were discovered almost 20 years ago,…

NASA Welcomes New Chief Scientist
NASA Welcomes New Chief Scientist

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named planetary geologist Ellen Stofan the agency’s chief scientist, effective Aug. 25. Stofan will be…

NASA Selects Eight Physical Science Research Proposals
NASA Selects Eight Physical Science Research Proposals

WASHINGTON — NASA’s Physical Science Research Program will fund eight proposals to help investigate how complex fluids and macromolecules behave…

NASA Sees Enthusiastic Response to Asteroid Call for Ideas
NASA Sees Enthusiastic Response to Asteroid Call for Ideas

WASHINGTON — NASA has received more than 400 responses to its request for information (RFI) on the agency’s asteroid initiative,…

Stennis Space Center Employees Receive 2013 NASA Honor Awards
Stennis Space Center Employees Receive 2013 NASA Honor Awards

Stennis Space Center Director Rick Gilbrech and NASA Chief Financial Officer Elizabeth Robinson presented annual NASA Honor Awards to center…

NASA’s WISE Finds Mysterious Centaurs May Be Comets
NASA’s WISE Finds Mysterious Centaurs May Be Comets

WASHINGTON — The true identity of centaurs, the small celestial bodies orbiting the sun between Jupiter and Neptune, is one…

NASA Mission Discovers Particle Accelerator in Heart of Van Allen Radiation Belts
NASA Mission Discovers Particle Accelerator in Heart of Van Allen Radiation Belts

WASHINGTON — Using data from a NASA satellite, scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one…

IRIS Mission Gets First Look at Sun’s Mysterious Interface Region
IRIS Mission Gets First Look at Sun’s Mysterious Interface Region

WASHINGTON — NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft has captured its first observations of a region of the sun…

Tenth Parachute Test for NASA’s Orion Adds 10,000 Feet of Success
Tenth Parachute Test for NASA’s Orion Adds 10,000 Feet of Success

WASHINGTON — A complicated, high-altitude test Wednesday demonstrated NASA’s new Orion spacecraft could land safely even if one of its…