Cameras outside the International Space Station captured views September 1 of Hurricane Dorian from 260 miles in altitude at 12:16 p.m. Eastern time as it churned over the Atlantic Ocean over the northern Bahamas. The storm, which is moving in a westerly direction with sustained winds of 180 miles an hour, is a dangerous Category […]
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Some of the smallest and lightest rockets in NASA’s lineup have made some of the biggest impacts on science. With a flight time of just about 15 minutes before falling back to Earth, sounding rockets collect unique observations on everything from our planet’s atmosphere to the Sun and even distant galaxies. Join us live to […]
After 11 years of ?breathtaking imagery, ⚙️unprecedented feats of engineering & ?️spacecraft records broken — it’s nearly time to bid farewell to NASA’s Dawn spacecraft as it comes to the expected end of the mission. Learn about its final orbits at Ceres: https://go.nasa.gov/dawnfinale
After 11 years of ?breathtaking imagery, ⚙️unprecedented feats of engineering & ?️spacecraft records broken — it’s nearly time to bid farewell to NASA’s Dawn spacecraft as it comes to the expected end of the mission. Learn about its final orbits at Ceres: https://go.nasa.gov/dawnfinale
On Sept. 15, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft completed its remarkable story of exploration with an intentional plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere, ending its mission after nearly 20 years in space. Live commentary of Cassini’s end of mission activities was shown on NASA TV and the agency’s website. Launched in 1997, Cassini arrived in orbit around Saturn in […]
After spending almost a full year in space, NASA’s Scott Kelly returned to his home in Houston early in the morning of March 3, landing at Ellington Field near the Johnson Space Center just over 24 hours after he and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Volkov and Mikhail Kornienko landed in their Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft near Dzhezkazgan, […]
This July, we salute our Apollo heroes and look forward to new frontiers. Watch live and join us online, Friday, July 19 at 1 p.m. EDT for “NASA’s Giant Leaps: Past and Future” featuring Apollo astronauts, current astronauts, guest host Adam Savage and more.
NASA officials and team members of the historic New Horizons mission to Pluto provide an update and share the latest developments on the spacecraft during a news conference from NASA headquarters.
Astronauts Andrew Morgan of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (ESA) will venture outside the International Space Station starting at ~6:50 a.m. EST to continue repairing the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) instrument. This is the third in a series of repair spacewalks – the most complex of this kind since the servicing […]
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water. The size of Kepler-62f is now measured, but its mass and composition are not. However, based […]