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Today the U.S. Geological Survey announced that Landsat 5 will be decommissioned over the coming months, bringing to a close the longest-operating Earth observing satellite mission in history. By any measure, the Landsat 5 mission has been an extraordinary success,…
Is there really water the Planet Mercury? In a recent press release from NASA, it says that the MESSENGER spacecraft has found new evidence of water ice at the poles of the planet Mercury. New observations by the MESSENGER spacecraft…
NASA has awarded three contracts totaling $137.3 million to improve the affordability, reliability and performance of an advanced booster for the Space Launch System (SLS). The awardees will develop engineering demonstrations and risk reduction concepts for a future version of…
NASA will host a media teleconference at 5 p.m. EDT today to discuss the selection of a new Discovery-class mission that will further NASA’s exploration of the solar system. The selection will be the 12th in NASA’s series of Discovery-class…
Get a behind the scenes look a the tension, anticipation and exhilaration experienced by scientists and engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. during the Curiosity rover’s harrowing descent through the Martian atmosphere — known as “Seven Minutes…
The Astrophysical Journal, a leading professional astronomy research publication, will issue a special edition of its Letters volume on April 20 with papers about observations made with NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) airborne telescope. SOFIA is a highly…
NASA unveiled a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky today showing more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. “Today, WISE delivers the fruit of 14…
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…
Located midway between England and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man is a small island with a complex history. Geologists have studied and reported on the Isle of Man since the nineteenth century, making it a popular destination for rock…