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Hubble Breaks Record in Search for Farthest Supernova
04.04.13 - Hubble found the farthest supernova ever recorded. Supernova SN Wilson, named after American President Woodrow Wilson, exploded more than 10 billion years ago.
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Scientists to Io: Your Volcanoes Are in the Wrong Place
04.04.13 - Researchers discover on Io a mysterious eastward offset between where volcanoes are and where they are perdicted to be.
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NASA Marks 30th Anniversary of TDRS Era
04.04.13 - On April 4, 1983, space shuttle Challenger began its maiden voyage carrying a new satellite that would revolutionize low-Earth orbit communications.
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Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Fifth Lowest on Record
04.03.13 - The Arctic Ocean's icy cover reached its annual maximum extent on February 28. At 5.82 million square miles, the 2013 sea ice winter extent is the fifth lowest in the satellite era.
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Preflight Interview: Luca Parmitano
04.04.13 - "I like this job and I feel that this is my job. I am happy that I could do it and that I was selected for the job."
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Preflight Interview: Fyodor Yurchkhin
04.04.13 - "Going to space is hard work, and having it, pulling it off flawlessly is something that NASA and all the international partners do amazingly well."
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Preflight Interview: Karen Nyberg
04.04.13 - "I don’t know what profession would be more interesting than being a cosmonaut."
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Used Parachute on Mars Flaps in the Wind
04.03.13 - Photos from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show how the parachute that helped NASA's Curiosity rover land on Mars last summer has subsequently changed its shape on the ground.
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Final MAVEN Instrument Integrated to Spacecraft
04.03.13 - An instrument that will measure the composition of Mars' upper atmosphere has been integrated to NASA's MAVEN spacecraft.
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Measuring the Seeds of Noctilucent Clouds
04.03.13 - In October 2011, a NASA-funded sounding rocket called CHAMPS flew up through noctilucent ice clouds to measure the meteoric smoke that seeds the clouds.
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Earth from Orbit in 2012
04.02.13 - This video takes a look back at the best views of Earth from space in 2012.
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Tomatosphere Wins Prestigious Award
04.02.13 - The Tomatosphere Project wins the 2013 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada's (NSERC) Award for Science Promotion.
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NASA Team Investigates Complex Chemistry at Titan
04.03.13 - A laboratory experiment at JPL simulating the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan suggests another region in the atmosphere that could brew up prebiotic materials.
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Crawler-Transporter Receives New Roller Bearing Assemblies
04.01.13 - For more than a year, NASA's crawler-transporter 2 has been undergoing a major tuneup in the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building.
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SORCE: A Decade in the Sun
03.29.13 - NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite has been providing data on the sun's irradiance for 10 years.
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ISS Research Update For The Week of March 18, 2013
04.01.13 - Expedition 34 is hard at work 200 plus miles above us! Catch this week's research highlights here.
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NASA Books Reveal Wisdom Gained from Failure
03.29.13 - The latest in NASA Aeronautics' Book Series tells the stories of lessons learned from accidents involving remotely piloted or autonomous aircraft.
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Hubble Sees J 900 Masquerading as a Double Star
03.29.13 - The object in this image is Jonckheere 900 or J 900, a planetary nebula — glowing shells of ionized gas pushed out by a dying star.
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NASA's Swift Sizes Up Comet ISON
03.29.13 - The Swift satellite observed a comet that may become one of the most dazzling seen in decades when it rounds the sun later this year.
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Herschel Completes Its 'Cool' Journey in Space
04.29.13 - The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected.