From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. (NASA) Jerrie Cobb poses next to a Mercury spacesh… Read More

Scope. This directive sets forth policy governing the release of public information, which is defined as information in any form provided to news and information media, especially informat… Read More

View of Boiling through the Microheater Array during a previous study. In the upper right is superimposed an image of boiling from the side. The Microheater Array Boiling Experiment may… Read More

The Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft carrying three new Expedition 35 crew members docked with the International Space Station’s Poisk module at 10:28 p.m. EDT Thursday, completing its accel… Read More

Feb. 9, 2013:  NASA's Curiosity rover has used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior. This is th… Read More

Jan. 18, 2013:  Out near the orbit of Jupiter, a faint speck of light is moving through the black of space.  At first glance it doesn't look like much, no brighter than a thousan… Read More

Dec. 21, 2012:  Just when you thought Christmas was over: At the end of the day on Dec. 25th, a pair of holiday lights will pop out of the deepening twilight. Jupiter and the Moon are… Read More

Feb. 26, 2013:  When the sun rose over Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday, Feb. 15th, many residents of nearby Chelyabinsk already knew that a space rock was coming. Later that day, an… Read More

March 15, 2013: For a comet, visiting the sun is risky business. Fierce solar heat vaporizes gases long frozen in the fragile nucleus, breaking up some comets and completely destroying ot… Read More

Dec. 13, 2012: A pair of NASA spacecraft that have been studying the Moon's gravitational field are being prepared for a controlled descent into a mountain near the Moon's north pole.&nbsp&hell…Read More

IntroductionInSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) is a NASA Discovery Program mission that would place a single geophysical lander on Mar… Read More

Feb. 13, 2013:  NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST) on Friday, Feb. 15, during the close, but safe, flyby of a small near-Earth asteroid named… Read More

Comet Pan-STARRS was discovered by the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System atop the Haleakala volcano in Hawaii. Astronomers use the massive 1.8 meter telescope to scan… Read More

Dec. 12, 2012: This week, NASA's Goldstone radar is tracking a large asteroid as it passes by Earth, and obtaining unusually clear images of the tumbling space rock. "There is no dange… Read More

What Does NASA Do?03.12.13 NASA's vision: To reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind. To do that, thousands of people have b… Read More

NASA's IRIS Spacecraft Is Fully Integrated01.18.13 The fully integrated spacecraft and science instrument for NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is seen in a c… Read More

JPL to Lead U.S. Science Team for Dark Energy Mission02.12.13  This artist's concept shows the Euclid spacecraft. Image credit: ESA/C. Carreau PASADENA, Calif. -- The European Space… Read More

Planets NASA is celebrating the Year of the Solar System! Spanning a Martian year (23 months), numerous missions will encounter their targets—the Moon and M… Read More

Looking at our Earth from space, it is obvious that we live on a water planet. Ocean covers over 70% of the Earth's surface and contains about 97% of the Earth's surface water. Life in the… Read More

New Report: Responding to the Challenge of Climate and Environmental ChangeNASA's Plan for a Climate-Centric Architecture for Earth Observations and Applications from Space Earth is a… Read More

Worm Hole transportation Just when you thought it was confusing enough, those physicist had to come up with wormholes. Here’s the premise behind a "wormhole." [graphic] Although Spe… Read More

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas 77058 Biographical Data John M. Grunsfeld (Ph.D.)NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER)PERSONAL DATA: Born in Chicago, Illinois. Married to the fo… Read More

After a long week that saw the departure of a commercial cargo craft loaded with the results of numerous scientific investigations and the express arrival of three new crewmates aboard a S… Read More

NASA Books Reveal Wisdom Gained from Failure03.29.13 "Crash Course" chronicles the lessons learned from failures over the decades of remotely piloted or autonomous unmanned aircraft s… Read More