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Cassini Suggests Icing on a Lake

01.08.13 - A new model by scientists working on NASA's Cassini mission finds that hydrocarbon ice might float on lakes on Saturn's largest moon.
Kepler Discovers 461 New Planet Candidates

01.07.2013 - Four of the potential new planets are less than twice the size of Earth and orbit in the "habitable zone," where liquid water might exist.
Expedition 34 Update: Jan. 7, 2013

01.07.13 - The Expedition 34 crew living and working aboard the station enjoyed some time off Monday in celebration of the Russian Christmas holiday.
› ISS Update Video | › Crew timelines
The Self-assembling Particles That Come From InSPACE

01.07.13 - Shape-shifting malleable, gelatinous forms are orbiting the Earth at this very moment -- growing as they are bombarded by magnetic pulses.
NASA's NuSTAR Catches Black Holes in Galaxy Web

01.07.13 - NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, set its X-ray eyes on a spiral galaxy and caught the brilliant glow of two black holes lurking inside.
Galaxy's Gamma-Ray Flares Erupted Far From its Black Hole

01.07.13 - Theorists expect gamma-ray outbursts occur only near a galaxy's central black hole. A few rare observations suggested otherwise.
NASA's Big Mars Rover Makes First Use of its Brush

01.07.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed first-time use of a brush it carries to sweep dust off rocks.
The Galaxy Puzzle in the Constellation of Centaurus

01.04.13 - Astronomers initially thought NCG 5011B and NGC 5011C were the same distance from the Earth. That would make them very close in the cosmos, yet there is no sign of interaction between them.
Expedition 34 Update: Jan. 4, 2013

01.04.13 - The Expedition 34 crew wrapped up the first workweek of the year aboard the station with with preparations for robotics competition.
› ISS Update Video | › Crew timelines
Curiosity Rover Explores 'Yellowknife Bay'

01.04.13 - After imaging during the holidays, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity resumed driving Jan. 3 and pulled within arm's reach of a sinuous rock feature called "Snake River."
Solar Ballet on the Sun

01.03.13 - NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this solar eruption on Dec. 31, 2012, as it rises and falls with the grace and polished movement of a ballet dancer.
Expedition 34 Update: Jan. 3, 2013

01.03.13 - The Expedition 34 crew of the International Space Station powered up Robonaut 2 for more remote testing Thursday.
› ISS Update Video
Space Trash May Make Radiation Shields

01.02.13 - Researchers are compressing trash and testing it for potential uses on deep-space missions.
Expedition 34 Update: Jan. 2, 2013

01.02.13 - The Expedition 34 crew of the International Space Station returned to work Wednesday with a focus on robotics and medical experiments.
› ISS Update Video
Researchers Identify Water Rich Meteorite Linked To Mars Crust

01.03.13 - NASA-funded researchers analyzing a small meteorite that may be the first discovered from the Martian surface or crust have found it contains 10 times more water than other Martian meteorites from unknown origins.
Heliophysics 2012: Year in Review

12.31.12 - A year-end review of major news coming from NASA's Heliophysics Division.
Fishing for Findings in Space Station Bone Health Study

12.31.12 - For centuries, people gazed at the constellation Pisces and imagined fish swimming in space. Astronauts have a closer view of real finned friends.
Jesco Von Puttkamer: 1933-2012

12.27.12 - Jesco von Puttkamer, who began his NASA career in 1962, when he worked on Wernher von Braun's rocket team as an engineer at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., during the Apollo Program, has died, following a brief illness. He was 79.
Hubble Sees a Wanderer Dancing the Dance of Stars and Space

12.28.12 - Hubble provides us this week with a spectacular image of the bright star-forming ring that surrounds the heart of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097.
An Image Gallery Gift from NASA's Swift

12.28.12 - The Swift team has selected more than 100 images to help celebrate eight years of operations of the satellite's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope.