Boeing brings space taxi jobs to Florida
Science Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Boeing Co. will bring hundreds of jobs to Florida by basing a program to develop passenger spaceships at the Kennedy Space Center
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NASA rover reaches rim of big Martian crater
Mars Thursday, August 11th, 2011
NASA’s surviving Mars rover Opportunity has reached the rim of a 14-mile-wide crater where the robot geologist will examine rocks older than any it has seen
NASA launches craft to Jupiter
Science Friday, August 5th, 2011
A sun-powered robotic explorer named Juno is rocketing toward Jupiter on a fresh quest to discover the secret recipe for making planets
NASA: Is life-giving water flowing on Mars?
Mars, Mars Photos, Photos Thursday, August 4th, 2011
New images from an orbiting probe appear to show seasonal water flow on the surface of Mars, among the strongest evidence yet of a possible habitat for Martian life
Global warming a hoax? NASA reveals Earth releasing heat into space
Science Saturday, July 30th, 2011
Data used to make a case for global warming may prove to be a hoax, according to new data collected from a NASA’s Terra satellite
Could new rover find fossils on Mars?
Mars Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Scientists are taking a slower, more methodical approach to make sure they understand the environments and chemistry that could support and preserve life
Mars rover to land inside huge crater
Mars, Mars Photos Sunday, July 24th, 2011
NASA’s next Mars rover will land at the foot of a towering mountain inside a 96-mile-wide crater to search for evidence the region once once supported life
Space shuttle Atlantis lands safely, ending 30-year program
Science, Technology Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Shuttle Atlantis landed in Florida today, ending the last of 135 missions that put the Hubble into orbit and helped build the International Space Station
NASA to test robot gas attendants for satellites
Science Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
An experiment riding on the final voyage of NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis is set to test out technologies that could be used on future robotic spacecraft. The experiment, called the Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM), is a satellite mockup that Atlantis delivered to the International Space Station when it docked on Sunday (July 10). The experiment [...]
NASA spacecraft nears giant asteroid for one-year study
Science Saturday, June 25th, 2011
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is on track to begin the first extended visit to a large asteroid. The mission expects to go into orbit around Vesta on July 16