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NASA announced Monday a $17.7 billion budget request for fiscal year 2013 supporting an ambitious program of space exploration that will build on new technologies and proven capabilities to expand America’s reach into the solar system. Despite a constrained fiscal…
On Feb. 16 at 8:15 a.m. EST spacewalkers, Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Kononenko, will exit the Pirs docking compartment. Pirs, also known as DC-1, launched Sept. 14, 2001, as ISS Assembly Mission 4R on a Russian Soyuz rocket. The Docking…
NASA will host a news conference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST), on Tuesday, Jan. 17, to announce the names selected from a nationwide student contest for twin spacecraft that will study the moon in unprecedented detail. The event…
The Visitor’s Center at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., invites the general public to a free lecture on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, entitled “Unlocking the Secrets of the Sun.” The program will begin at 7 p.m. EST…
Scientists discovered many new species on the floor of the Southern Ocean near Antarctica — something they’re describing as a “riot of life.” Jeffrey Brown speaks with former oceanographer Mark Schrope about the newest known species of sea life found…
On December 30, 2011, Kizimen Volcano emitted a steam plume that condensed rapidly in the frigid winter air of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. Kizimen has been erupting since November 2010, when a fissure opened on the volcano’s southeast flank. In January…
Who hasn’t heard about the rumors spreading for the past years about the world ending in 2012? Everyone must have read about the predictions that the earth will finally see its end in December 2012. So what has NASA got…
A special New Year’s message from the NASA Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station. Watch the video: The six-person Expedition 30 crew of the International Space Station wrapped up the final workweek of 2011 today with medical…
Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have discovered that one of the most distant galaxies known is churning out stars at a shockingly high rate. The blob-shaped galaxy, called GN-108036, is the brightest galaxy found to date at…
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be in the so-called habitable zone where liquid water could…