Astronomy
Commander Pavel Vinogradov and NASA Science Officer Jeffrey Williams, the 13th International Space Station crew, launched March 29 aboard their Soyuz spacecraft to begin a six-month stay in space.
08:07 Mar 30, 2006
Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have found evidence that a new class of small moonlets resides within Saturn's rings. There may be as many as 10 million of these objects within one of Saturn's rings alone.
02:53 Mar 30, 2006
NASA will send three astronauts and a doctor under the ocean next month to test space medicine concepts and moon-walking techniques.
11:32 Mar 29, 2006
NASA senior management officials said March 27 that they will reinstate the Dawn mission, a robotic exploration of two major asteroids. The mission had been canceled previously because of technical problems and cost overruns.
02:22 Mar 29, 2006
International teams of astronomers will bring a rare, four-minute total eclipse of the sun to people around the world March 29, with webcasts, podcasts and live video feeds provided by NASA.
10:34 Mar 28, 2006
The first test images of Mars from NASA's newest spacecraft preview what the orbiter will reveal when its main science mission begins in six months.
11:07 Mar 27, 2006
Schoolchildren around the world will gaze skyward after dark March 22-29, looking for specific constellations and then sharing their observations through the Internet.
14:22 Mar 16, 2006
A new view of the biggest canyon in the solar system, merging hundreds of photos from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, offers scientists, public an online resource for exploring the entire canyon in detail.
05:30 Mar 14, 2006
Somewhere deep in the cold vacuum of space last week, a small man-made object settled into a perfect orbit around our nearest celestial neighbor, the famed red planet of Mars.
04:12 Mar 12, 2006
NASA's Cassini spacecraft may have found evidence of liquid water reservoirs that erupt in Yellowstone-like geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
18:33 Mar 9, 2006
Cassini returns to Saturn's satellite Titan for the twelth targeted flyby of Titan on Monday, February 27, 2006 at 2006-058T08:25:19 Ground UTC and 02:48am PST.
02:52 Feb 26, 2006
Comet Tempel 1, the target of a collision with a probe launched by NASA July 4, 2005, is covered with a small amount of surface water ice - the first evidence of surface ice on any comet.
18:49 Feb 7, 2006
NASA launched a spacecraft designed to explore for the first time distant Pluto, its moons and possibly the icy Kuiper Belt mini-worlds 1.6 billion kilometers beyond the orbit of Neptune.
05:47 Jan 20, 2006
After spending nearly seven years in space and traveling more than 4.6 billion kilometers, NASA's Stardust capsule returned to Earth carrying precious samples of cometary and interstellar dust.
20:31 Jan 15, 2006
Stardust is completing a 2.88 billion mile round-trip odyssey to capture and return cometary and interstellar dust particles to Earth.
03:24 Jan 13, 2006
'What a surprise,' said NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) researcher Rob Suggs, who recorded the impact's flash. He and colleague Wes Swift were testing a new telescope...
15:14 Jan 3, 2006
The U.S. space agency NASA completed a year of milestones and discoveries in 2005 as it begins to implement the Vision for Space Exploration...
09:11 Dec 29, 2005
'The more we can learn from science exploration missions like Stardust,' she added, 'the more we can prepare for human exploration to the moon, Mars and beyond.'
05:47 Dec 28, 2005
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a new pair of rings around Uranus and two new, small moons orbiting the planet.
20:12 Dec 27, 2005
During Cassini's Dec. 26 flyby of Titan, the spacecraft will be in the same region that NASA's Voyager 1 flew by in 1980.
12:10 Dec 25, 2005
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