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Dancing Droplets Rock Out on Station
05.07.12 - Expedition 31 crew member Don Pettit has taught more than half-a-million internet viewers how microgravity affects scientific principles using everyday objects.
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MSL Gets Closer to Mars Every Day
04.27.12 - At 1:31 p.m. EDT, April 27, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, carrying the one-ton Curiosity rover, became within 100 days from its appointment with the Martian surface.
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Hubble Will Use Moon as a Mirror
05.04.12 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will be studying the transit of Venus across the sun's face on June 5-6.
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Parachute Drop Test Completed
05.03.12 - Drogue parachute deployment sequence initiated, followed by deployment of the main parachute. The capsule descended to a smooth ground landing, cushioned by six inflated air bags.
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Strong Evidence for Water
05.03.12 - Minerals on Mars could be evidence of a non-acidic wet phase of the environmental history.
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Stellar Homicide
05.02.12 - Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close.
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Cancer Treatment Delivery
05.03.12 - ISS provides a microgravity platform, enabling advancements in cancer treatment.
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NASA.gov Wins Two 2012 Webby Awards
05.01.12 - NASA's website, www.nasa.gov, has won awards in two categories as the best government site in the 16th Annual Webby Awards.
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Supermoon 2012
05.04.12 - The perigee full moon on May 5, 2012 will be as much as 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than other full moons of 2012.
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Space Station's Robotic Crew Member
04.30.12 - Robonaut 2, NASA’s first dexterous humanoid robot, was built to assist astronauts with tasks that are simple, repetitive or potentially dangerous.