
MESSENGER mapped the composition of Mercury's surface, took images to determine the structure of the magnetic field, determined the composition…

On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced its first astronaut class, the Mercury 7.

This April 6, 2014, image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows…

This infographic explains a popular theory of active supermassive black holes, referred to as the unified model

QuikScat acquires all-weather, high resolution measurements of near-surface winds over global oceans using specialized microwave radar.Launch: June 1999Operating Network: Near…

Rosetta is a European Space Agency mission to orbit a periodic comet, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and dispatch a lander, called Philae, to…

Soyuz Commander and cosmonaut Maxim Suraev, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and European astronaut Alexander Gerst will launch aboard the Soyuz…

SAC-D characterizes salinity variation and investigates the linkage between ocean circulation, the Earth’s water cycle, and climate variability.Mission Duration: June…

Astronomers have found cosmic clumps so dark, dense and dusty that they throw the deepest shadows ever recorded. The clumps…

The largest crater associated with a March 2012 impact on Mars has many smaller craters around it, revealed in this…