New NASA research combining experimental studies with analyses of samples collected nearly 50 years ago during Apollo provides compelling evidence that the Moon formed from the same materials as Earth in the aftermath of a giant impact between the ...
NASA welcomed a new administrator, Jim Bridenstine, deputy administrator, Jim Morhard, and chief financial officer, Jeff DeWit, in 2018. Their focus is on firmly establishing the groundwork to send Americans back to the Moon sustainably, with plans to use ...
Lockheed Martin-built InSight Lander successfully lands on the surface of the Red Plant to study the deep interior of Mars. NASA has a new spacecraft operating on the surface of Mars. This afternoon, the InSight Mars Lander, which was ...
NASA’s Johnson Space Center will open its gates to the public Saturday, Oct. 27, for the first time in years, celebrating NASA’s 60th anniversary and the International Space Station’s 20th anniversary. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Oct. 27, the public will be offered a free, behind-the-scenes look at ...
NASA has launched a pilot program to evaluate how Earth science data from commercial small-satellite constellations could supplement observations from the agency’s fleet of orbiting Earth science missions. On Sept. 28, the agency awarded sole-source contracts to acquire test data ...
Members of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft team will host a Science Chat at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 19, on humanity’s farthest planetary flyby, scheduled to occur Jan. 1 when the spacecraft encounters a mysterious object in the Kuiper Belt nicknamed “Ultima ...
NASA has launched Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), which will start a new mission to measure the ice of Earth’s frozen regions. The satellite provides improved accuracy on this count. Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science ...
KBR, Inc. (NYSE: KBR) announced today that its global government services business, KBRwyle, has been awarded a contract to study the future of commercial enterprise in low-Earth orbit (LEO), including long-range opportunities for the International Space Station (ISS). NASA selected ...
The following is a joint statement from NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos about the investigation into a pressure leak on the International Space Station Aug. 29-30: “NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and Roscosmos General Director Dmitry Rogozin met for the first time yesterday ...
WASHINGTON, Yesterday on Aug. 31, 2018- NASA has announced that is inviting media to view NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) spacecraft Thursday, Oct. 4, ahead of its scheduled launch aboard a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket Saturday, Oct. 6, at 4 a.m. EDT from Cape ...