• NASA and Excalibur Complete Space Act Agreement

    NASA and Excalibur Complete Space Act Agreement

    07.06.12 - 
    Excalibur Almaz Inc. (EAI) successfully completed its Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) partnership with NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Through CCDev2, NASA is spurring innovation and development of safe, reliable and cost-effective spacecraft and launch vehicles capable of transporting astronauts to low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station.

  • Mars Panorama - Next Best Thing to Being There

    Mars Panorama - Next Best Thing to Being There

    07.09.12 - 
    From fresh rover tracks to an impact crater blasted billions of years ago, a newly completed view from the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the ruddy terrain around the outcrop where the long-lived explorer spent its most recent Martian winter.

    NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, is slated to land on the Red Planet on Aug. 6, 2012 (EDT).

      › Learn More About NASA's Curiosity Rover

  • Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field

    Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field

    07.02.12 - Portals, a favorite sci-fi theme, are openings in space or time that connects travelers to distant realms. If only they actually existed ... It turns out that they do, sort of.

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  • Scanning Webb's Surrogate Eye

    Scanning Webb's Surrogate Eye

    07.05.12 - Technicians at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center are testing special optical equipment to verify the alignment of the actual flight instruments that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

  • Studying the Sun's Magnetic Fields

    Studying the Sun's Magnetic Fields

    07.02.12 - A Black Brant IX sounding rocket carrying the Solar Ultraviolet Magnetograph Investigation, or SUMI, experiment, successfully launched from the White Sands Test Facility Thursday afternoon. Sumi will study the intricate, constantly changing magnetic fields on the sun in a hard-to-observe area of the sun's low atmosphere called the chromosphere.

  • Space-Bound Orion at Kennedy

    Space-Bound Orion at Kennedy

    07.02.12 - The Orion capsule that will make the first flight test into space arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, June 29, where it will be built up into a fully functioning spacecraft ahead of a test flight slated for 2014.

     Orion at KSC  › SLS Integration

  • A Young Star Flaunts Its X-ray Spots

    A Young Star Flaunts Its X-ray Spots

    07.03.12 - A new study based on observations from a trio of orbiting X-ray telescopes -- including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Japan-led Suzaku satellite -- indicates that intense magnetic fields drive torrents of gas into the stellar surface, where they heat large areas to millions of degrees. X-rays emitted by these hot spots betray the newborn star's rapid rotation.

  • Solar Fireworks

    Solar Fireworks

    07.04.12 - The sun fires off a solar flare on the Fourth of July.

     Watch the July 2 Flare

  • Fireworks Over Mars

    Fireworks Over Mars

    07.02.12 - One month and a day after celebrating its independence, America will carry its penchant for awe-inspiring aerial pyrotechnic displays to the skies of another world.

  • Changes in Exoplanet Atmosphere

    Changes in Exoplanet Atmosphere

    06.28.12 - An international team of astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet located beyond our solar system.