04.04.13 - The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), using the power and data transmission capabilities of the International Space Station, is a particle physics detector designed to search for various types of unusual matter by measuring cosmic rays.
03.13.2013 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found evidence for a freshwater setting on ancient Mars, the terminus of an ancient river system and possibly an intermittently wet lake bed, which could have provided chemical energy and other favorable conditions for microbes
02.13.13 - NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver was joined by Bobak Ferdowsi, flight engineer for NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover mission, at a White House science news conference conducted by 10-18 year-old students.
02.05.13 - NASA astronaut Ron Garan served as the keynote speaker for the Innovation, Science/Research & Technology Track at the Susan G. Komen International Global Women’s Cancer Summit, held Feb. 4 at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington.
01.25.13 - To help develop the nation’s future heavy-lift rocket, NASA resurrected its most powerful rocket engine ever flown, the F-1, which powered the Saturn V rocket, and test fired its gas generator Thursday, Jan. 24, at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
01.10.13 - Satellite operations are challenging all by themselves. But what happens when high flying hardware needs maintenance up close? The Robotic Refueling Mission promises to test the proposition.
12.17.12 - As 2012 draws to a close, many websites, books and cable television shows are erroneously predicting the end of the world.
12.17.12 - As 2012 draws to a close, many websites, books and cable television shows are erroneously predicting the end of the world.
12.05.12 - Building on the success of Curiosity's Red Planet landing, NASA announced plans for a robust multi-year Mars program, including a new robotic science rover set to launch in 2020.
11.02.2012 - On Friday, Nov. 2, space shuttle Atlantis was moved from Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to the Center’s Visitor Complex where the orbiter will go on public display.
10.07.12 - The first SpaceX launch for NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 8:35 p.m. EDT on Sunday, Oct. 7.
09.28.2012 - NASA's Curiosity rover mission has found evidence that a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is now driving.
08.13.12 - On Thursday, Sept. 13 NASA provided special live programming of the public memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral to honor the life and career of astronaut Neil Armstrong.
09.13.2012 - On Thursday, Sept. 13 NASA provided special live programming of the public memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral to honor the life and career of astronaut Neil Armstrong.
08.31.2012 - NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), the first twin-spacecraft mission designed to explore our planet’s radiation belts, launched into the predawn skies at 4:05a.m. EDT on August 30 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
08.22.2012 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has begun driving from its landing site, which scientists have named for the late author Ray Bradbury.
08.13.12 - President Barack Obama made a congratulatory call to members of NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., this morning.
08.10.12 - NASA’s Mars Curiosity is healthy as it continues to familiarize itself with its new home in Gale Crater and check out its systems.
08/02/2012 - NASA Administrator Charles Bolden discusses the much-anticipated landing of The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission with Curiosity, the Red Planet’s next resident rover.
07.02.2012 - More than 450 guests at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida welcomed the arrival of the agency's first space-bound Orion spacecraft Monday, marking a major milestone in the construction of the vehicle that will carry astronauts farther into space than ever before.