LAUREL, Md.—A NASA spacecraft four billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures yesterday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman.
You are here
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Christmas turkey rocketed toward the International Space Station yesterday, along with cranberry sauce, candied yams, and the obligatory fruitcake.
The SpaceX booster missed its landing zone on the ground after lift-off, however, and ended up in the sea just a couple of miles offshore.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived yesterday at the ancient asteroid Bennu—its first visitor in billions of years.
The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex pulled within 19 km of the diamond-shaped space rock.
It will get even closer in the days ahead and go into orbit around Bennu on Dec. 31.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Minutes after touching down on Mars, NASA's InSight spacecraft sent back a “nice and dirty” snapshot of its new digs.
Yet the dust-speckled image looked like a work of art to scientists.
The photo revealed a mostly smooth and sandy terrain around the spacecraft, with only one sizable rock visible.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A NASA spacecraft's six-month journey to Mars neared its dramatic grand finale today in what scientists and engineers hoped would be a soft precision landing on flat red plains.
The InSight lander aimed for an afternoon touchdown as anxiety built among those involved in the $1-billion international effort.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Spacewalking cosmonauts set up an antenna for tracking birds on Earth and sent a series of tiny satellites flying from the International Space Station yesterday.
Russian Sergey Prokopyev used his gloved right hand to fling four research satellites into space.
The first mini satellite safely tumbled away as the space station soared 250 miles above Illinois.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA's next-generation space telescope has been delayed yet again at a staggering cost of $1 million a day.
For the third time in less than a year, the space agency yesterday announced a lengthy postponement for the James Webb Space Telescope.
The observatory now will fly no earlier than 2021; until last fall, it was on the books for a 2018 launch.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to protect the planet from incoming asteroids that could wipe out entire regions or even continents.
The U.S. National Science and Technology Council released a report yesterday calling for improved asteroid detection, tracking, and deflection.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA's seemingly unstoppable Mars rover Opportunity has been knocked out by a gigantic dust storm that is enveloping the red planet and blotting out the sun.
Officials said yesterday they're hopeful the rover will survive the storm, which already covers one-quarter of Mars and is expected to encircle the planet in another few days.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA's Tess spacecraft embarked yesterday on a quest to find new worlds around neighbouring stars that could support life.
“Tess” rode a SpaceX Falcon rocket through the evening sky, aiming for an orbit stretching all the way to the moon.