Category: Updates

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Program is concluding its structural qualification test series with one upcoming final test that will push the design for the …

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

Astronomers have reported the first detection of X-rays from the earliest phase of evolution of a star like our Sun. Source:: updates 2       

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

Pilots Troy Asher and Wayne Ringelberg walk out of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center’s (AFRC) hangar in Palmdale, California, toward the flight line. Source:: updates …

This week in 1996, space shuttle Columbia, mission STS-78, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Source:: updates 2       

This artist’s concept shows an astronaut on Mars, as viewed through the window of a spacecraft. Source:: updates 3       

Target: Earth Mission: Terra Instrument: ASTER Image Credit: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team Source:: updates       

Kathy Lueders, NASA’s associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, has named Joel Montalbano as acting manager of the International Space Station Program. The appointment …

The arrival of NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley aboard the International Space Station has increased the science tempo for the crew — and …

Students from across the nation will have an opportunity this week to ask questions of NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call …

Mission: Mars 2020 Project Instrument: PIXL Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates       

Target: Triton Mission: Trident Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates       

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 18, to introduce Kathy Lueders, the newly selected associate administrator …

Seen here in incredible detail is the starburst galaxy formally known as PLCK G045.1+61.1. The galaxy, which appears as multiple reddish dots near the center …

NASA is inviting additional teams to compete in the Cube Quest Challenge. You can still participate in the in-space phase of the challenge and be …

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Friday, June 19, to introduce Kathy Lueders, the newly selected associate administrator …

NASA leadership and a panel of scientists and engineers will preview NASA’s next mission to the Red Planet, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, at a …

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

Target: Mars Mission: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Instrument: Mastcam Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates       

Launched on April 20, 2004, Gravity Probe B (GP-B) was a collaboration between Stanford University and NASA designed to test two previously untested aspects of …

Bird watching and rocket launching aren’t normally mentioned in the same breath. One activity combines the beauty and grace of nature with a relaxing personal …

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Friday selected Commercial Crew Program Manager Kathy Lueders to be the agency’s next associate administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations …

Target: Mars Mission: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Instrument: Navigation Camera Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates       

This illustration imagines the view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during one of its final dives between Saturn and its innermost rings. Source:: updates 3       

Media are invited to attend virtual student presentations for the NASA Spacesuit User Interface Technology for Students (NASA SUITS) challenge at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, …

Now anyone can virtually “meet” women who have blazed trails in space and related science fields in a new app released through a collaboration between …

This week in 2001, space shuttle Endeavour, mission STS-100, landed after a successful 11-day mission to the International Space Station. Source:: updates 2       

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

Mission: Mars 2020 Project Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/NIA and Courtesy Rupani Family Source:: updates       

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

The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020. Source:: updates 3       

Mission: Spitzer Space Telescope Instrument: Spitzer Space Telescope Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates       

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 30, to announce the companies selected to develop modern human landing systems (HLS) …

On April 25, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the cargo bay of space shuttle Discovery. Source:: updates 3       

On Friday, April 24, 2020, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine visited the White House to brief President Trump on NASA’s fight to alleviate COVID-19. Source:: updates …

Statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on the passing of the agency’s sixth administrator, James Beggs, on April 23. Source:: updates 5       

The Susquehanna River cuts through the folds of the Valley-and-Ridge province of the Appalachian Mountains in this photograph taken by the crew of the International …

Image Credit: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City and NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates       

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates