Astronomy
The impression in the soil was captured by Phoenix's Stereo Surface Imager. Features and locations around the Phoenix lander are being named for fairy tale and mythological characters.
06:27 Jun 2, 2008
The Mars Phoenix Lander has sent pictures back to earth that give hope to both romantics who believe in little green men from Mars, and scientists who only accept empirical truth.
15:27 May 30, 2008
Second place in the college group went to 'A busy day on the moon,' by Johnathan Culpepper, a senior at Medgar Evers College in the City University of New York.
11:46 May 30, 2008
WASHINGTON - The launch of NASA's GLAST spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is scheduled for Thursday, June 5.
07:40 May 30, 2008
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is responsible for providing users access to data from NASA's Earth Science program.
14:44 May 29, 2008
NASA has selected EG&G Technical Services Inc. of Gaithersburg, Md., to provide facility operations and maintenance services at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
14:30 May 29, 2008
This cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is valued at more than $33.5 million. The period of performance is 30 months from the contract's start.
13:40 May 29, 2008
NASA has selected six candidate mission proposals for further evaluation as part of the agency's Small Explorer (SMEX) Program.
12:44 May 29, 2008
Attendance is limited. Registration will close at 5 p.m. on June 4. Reporters wanting to attend must contact Stephanie Schierholz at 202-358-4997 or Grey Hautaluoma at 202-358-0688 by June 5.
07:37 May 29, 2008
'The educational games and resources from this partnership will allow students to explore the science and math behind space exploration with a beloved character.'
06:25 May 29, 2008
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA will hold a briefing at 11 a.m. EDT, Friday, May 30, to discuss new opportunities to use the International Space Station's unique research environment.
07:03 May 28, 2008
Phoenix uses hardware from a spacecraft built for a 2001 launch that was canceled in response to the loss of a similar Mars spacecraft during a 1999 landing attempt.
05:32 May 26, 2008
Hardly ever does an academic speech attract so many people that even the University of Leicester's largest lecture hall seems too small to accommodate everyone interested.
08:39 May 25, 2008
'The Imaging Source have delivered cameras and software that offer the serious Solar System imager a product which will deliver outstanding results for years to come.'
07:28 May 24, 2008
The 594-page, April 2008, hardcover book, 'Cosmology,' was written as a graduate textbook for mainstream cosmology and as a reference book.
10:53 May 23, 2008
Launch of NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is targeted for Tuesday, June 3, from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
12:02 May 22, 2008
NASA Thursday adjusted the target launch dates for two space shuttle missions in 2008. Shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to the Hubble Space Telescope is now targeted for Oct. 8.
08:57 May 22, 2008
A geographer from the University of Leicester has produced for the first time a map of the scorched Earth for every year since the turn of the Millennium.
04:35 May 22, 2008
NASA has awarded its consolidated protective services contract to Coastal International Security, Inc. of Lorton, Va. The contract has a maximum value of $1.56 billion, if all options are exercised.
11:45 May 21, 2008
The International Space Station, a unique partnership between the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Japan, Canada and Europe, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
12:44 May 20, 2008
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