Pluto is now the most distant object in our solar system ever visited by humankind. It took nearly 10 years for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft to arrive at Pluto, but the momentous occasion finally happened on Tuesday.
With a looming 2020 deadline, NASA performed another test launch Monday of its new "flying saucer" spacecraft, the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator, which is designed to provide controlled descents onto the surface of Mars during future planned missions. And how did the LDSD fare? Let's just say the mission had mixed results.
Kelly will be joined by Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has begun his adventure. Over the next year, he and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will live in the International Space Station, USAToday reports.
NASA is on a mission to study what the Associated Press called "the explosive give-and-take of the Earth and sun's magnetic fields" and launched four identical spacecraft on Thursday to explore a phenomenon known as magnetic reconnection.
The next time such a large asteroid will get close to Earth is asteroid 1999 AN10 in 2027. If you missed the asteroid that came within 745,000 miles of Earth on Monday morning at 8:19 a.
After initial fears about a possible toxic gas leak aboard the International Space Station, it appears that a problem with a computer onboard the craft sounded the alarm by mistake, which then prompted astronauts located on the American side of the station to move to the Russian sector on Wednesday while the situation was investigated.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) believes life may have once existed on Mars due to similarities between ancient sedimentary rocks on the Red Planet and Earth.
Tonight is the night to see the Quadrantids, the first meteor shower of the year. Saturday night is the night to see Quadrantid, the first meteor shower of the year.
The latest scientific discovery has found something close to comic books' "microverse," or miniaturized universe. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Hubble Space Telescope, along with some astronomers, have discovered a dwarf galaxy -- a universe that is 1,000 times smaller than anything previously found.
The Geminid meteor shower will be the brightest Saturday night into Sunday morning. The Geminid meteor shower, which gets its name from Gemini–the constellation it appears to originate from–will be the brightest Saturday night into Sunday morning.
NASA has sent its first spacecraft into space since the end of the space shuttle program. Orion’s test flight proved a success, and NASA is a step closer to deep-space exploration.
The launch of the new Orion spacecraft has been moved to Friday morning after issues today. The unmanned module will undergo trials before sending humans back into space.
NASA opened up the registration process this week for its CubeSat Cube Quest Challenge, calling on competitors around the world to come up with the technology to enable small satellites – or CubeSats – to be used for deep space exploration in both scientific and commercial arenas.
Astronauts would have to be in stasis for up to six months A study funded by NASA is looking into a novel way to plan a manned mission to Mars, put the astronauts into a sort of hibernation state for much of the journey.
