Dancing With Aliens

Satellites love hydrazine – a type of space propellant – but it’s toxic to people and extremely difficult to handle. A non-toxic alternative will be

Media are invited to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans at 9:30 a.m. CDT Friday, June 28, to view progress on the rocket core

Media are invited to a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. EDT Tuesday, July 2, celebrating the renaming of NASA’s Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation

Fifty years ago, an unparalleled team of experts in a mission control center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston landed the first humans on

The electric motors for X-57’s Mod II vehicle and their propellers were powered up and spun together for the first time as part of an

Target: Jupiter Mission: Juno Instrument: JunoCam Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill Source:: updates       

Mission: Mars 2020 Rover Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates       

Mission: Mars 2020 Rover Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates       

As a child, my bedroom was adorned with NASA posters, and I would lay awake at night dreaming of space exploration. Growing up in Wisconsin

NASA astronaut Anne McClain and two crewmates on the International Space Station are scheduled to conclude their stay aboard the orbiting laboratory Monday, June 24.

Target: Mars Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument: THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: updates       

At 5:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, June 20, 2019, a 40-foot tall rocket carrying 28 student experiments (measuring acceleration, humidity, pressure, temperature and radiation counts) launched

The pilot of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology, or QueSST, aircraft will navigate the skies in a cockpit unlike any other. Source:: updates 3       

This week in 1967, the Saturn V third stage, S-IVB-209, was successfully static-fired for a mainstage duration of 465 seconds in the Beta I test

A team of astronomers used a set of long Chandra observations, totaling about two weeks of observing, of the Coma galaxy cluster to probe gas

Media are invited to attend a panel on June 20 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center featuring the current director of NASA’s Marshall Space

Target: Mars Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument: THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: updates       

Mission: Mars 2020 Rover Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates       

Mission: Mars 2020 Rover Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates       

This flag accompanied NASA astronaut Alan B. Shepard on his 15-minute suborbital journey on May 5, 1961. Source:: updates 3       

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will be available to speak with media during the International Paris Air Show on Tuesday, June 18, in Le Bourget, France.

Target: Saturn Mission: Cassini-Huygens Instrument: Imaging Science Subsystem Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Source:: updates