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NGC 1559, a stunning barred spiral galaxy located in the Reticulum constellation about 35 million light-years from Earth, shines brightly in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. This composite is made up of ten different Hubble images, each capturing light…
Via NASA: Watch history unfold on Saturday, May 30, as NASA and SpaceX launch astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station. This mission marks the first time since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011…
Technicians at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility completed Orion’s assembly in New Orleans. It will next be delivered to Florida. The spacecraft is set for an unmanned mission to the moon in 2018. NASA’s Orion spacecraft is another step closer to…
You may have read it on social media that a comet will hit earth between September 15-28, 2015. There is also a video circulating online entitled “Confirmed-2.5 Mile Wide Comet expected September 15-28 2015?, saying that NASA and the Federal…
Mars has liquid water just below its surface, according to new measurements by Nasa’s Curiosity rover. ** Martian weather and soil conditions that NASA’s Curiosity rover has measured, together with a type of salt found in Martian soil, could put…
NASA successfully launched its first Earth satellite designed to collect global observations of the vital soil moisture hidden just beneath our feet. The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory, a mission with broad applications for science and society, lifted off…
Whatever this is that the NASA Mars rover found on the red planet is for sure something amazing. In recent images from the rover, prints on the surface of Mars showed what appears to be a high-pressure valve, the kind…
Are we really alone in the universe? NASA space-based observatories are making unprecedented new discoveries and revealing worlds never before seen. During a televised panel discussion of leading science and engineering experts at NASA Headquarters on Monday, July 14, a…
NASA has launched its first spacecraft devoted to monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide. On Wednesday, July 2, 2014, a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket launched with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite onboard from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg…
Here are the 12 proposals that were selected under Phase 1 of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program for 2014. “The latest NIAC selections include a number of exciting concepts for planetary exploration,” Michael Gazarik, NASA’s associate administrator for…