Submitted by Yellowbeard on January 4, 2012 - 12:46am
As many of us were waiting for the ball to drop on New Years' Eve, NASA scientists were ringing in 2012 with a new lunar probe heading into orbit. After a 3½-month journey, a NASA spacecraft flew over the moon's south pole, fired its engine and dropped into orbit Saturday in the first of two [...]
Submitted by Lamont Cranston on December 21, 2011 - 9:43am
Astronomers with NASA's Kepler Spacecraft announced the discovery of two Earth-sized planets yesterday.
Submitted by Capt. Xerox on December 13, 2011 - 12:44pm
NASA has approved the first commercial space flight to the International Space Station.
SpaceX will launch its Dragon cargo capsule on February 7, 2012 for the first linkup of a private-sector craft with the ISS.
Submitted by Capt. Xerox on December 9, 2011 - 7:39pm
NASA sets launch date for commercial space flight to the International Space Station...
Submitted by Capt. Xerox on December 7, 2011 - 1:40am
NASA has found a new planet outside our solar system that's eerily similar to Earth in key aspects.
Submitted by Capt. Xerox on December 3, 2011 - 1:40am
At a range of nearly 1 billion miles (10.5 AUs), NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is now the closest ever to approach Pluto, and it continues to near the dwarf planet every moment...
Submitted by Lamont Cranston on November 15, 2011 - 10:45pm
Applications for NASA's next class of astronauts are due January 27, 2012...
Submitted by Yellowbeard on November 9, 2011 - 1:46am
Applications for NASA second class of Space Technology Research Fellowships (research beginning in fall 2012) are due by January 11...
Submitted by Lamont Cranston on November 7, 2011 - 12:44pm
NASA is preparing to send a new rover to the Red Planet.
Submitted by Lamont Cranston on October 4, 2011 - 6:43pm
NASA will be accepting applications for the newest astronaut class starting in November...
Submitted by Yellowbeard on October 4, 2011 - 3:42pm
NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory probes, currently headed to the Moon, need new names, and the Agency has decided school children should name them...
Submitted by Yellowbeard on October 3, 2011 - 1:40pm
One hundred and fifty lucky NASA Twitter followers are going to get the chance of a lifetime. The space agency is offering 150 followers the chance to witness the United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 take-off for the red planet of Mars. The latest Mars rover — the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover — will [...]
Submitted by Lamont Cranston on September 20, 2011 - 8:44am
You may want to keep an eye on the sky this Friday. NASA says there is a chance a defunct satellite could enter the planet's atmosphere and potentially hit someone.
Submitted by Lamont Cranston on September 7, 2011 - 11:39am
Remember when we used to go the moon? It’s been a while since a lunar trip but NASA wants to refresh your memory of those days and is releasing a new set of images depicting the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. The images, snapped by the space agency’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), show [...]
Submitted by Yellowbeard on September 2, 2011 - 7:42pm
"Eyes on the Solar System" is a 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. Explore the cosmos from your computer. Hop on an asteroid. Fly with NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. See the entire solar system moving in real time. It's up to you. You control space and time...
