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Longest-Lived Mars Orbiter is Back in Service
06.27.12 - NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has resumed its science observations and its role as a Mars rover's relay, thanks to a spare part that had been waiting 11 years to be put to use.
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Curiosity Rover on Track for Early August Landing
06.26.12 - A maneuver on Tuesday adjusted the flight path of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft for delivering the rover Curiosity to a landing target beside a Martian mountain.
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NASA's Hubble Spots Rare Gravitational Arc from Distant, Hefty Galaxy Cluster
06.26.12 - Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a puzzling arc of light behind an extremely massive cluster of galaxies residing 10 billion light-years away.
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Cassini Shows Why Jet Streams Cross-Cut Saturn
06.25.12 - Scientists studying images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have found that heat from within the planet powers the jet streams.
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Voyager 1 at the Final Frontier
06.22.12 - NASA’s Voyager 1 probe has been hurtling toward the edge of the solar system for 35 years and is perched to enter the realm of interstellar space.
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SDO/EVE Sounding Rocket Launches Successfully
06.23.12 - Based on the quicklook realtime data, all of the rocket EVE instrument channels appear to have made excellent solar EUV irradiance measurements.
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Estimating Ice Content at Moon's South Pole
06.20.12 - Scientists mapped Shackleton crater with unprecedented detail using the laser altimeter on LRO and found evidence for ice.
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Orbiter Out of Precautionary 'Safe Mode'
06.19.12 - NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has been taken out of a protective status called safe mode.
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NASA Workshop Findings on Asteroid 2011 AG5
06.15.12 - Researchers anticipate that asteroid 2011 AG5, discovered in January 2011, will fly safely past and not impact Earth in 2040.
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2012 Noctilucent Cloud Season Begins
06.15.12 - They're Baaaack! The first noctilucent clouds for the 2012 season have been spotted.