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Orion Parachutes Chalk Up Another Test Success in Arizona
Orion Parachutes Chalk Up Another Test Success in Arizona

The parachute system for Orion, America’s spacecraft that will carry humans to deep space, deployed as planned after being dropped…

Gemini X Time Lapse
Gemini X Time Lapse

This time exposure photograph is of the Gemini X spacecraft, which launched from Complex 19 on July 18, 1966 with…

Technicians Ensure James Webb Space Telescope’s Sunshield Survives Stresses Experienced During Liftoff
Technicians Ensure James Webb Space Telescope’s Sunshield Survives Stresses Experienced During Liftoff

Acoustic testing exposes the spacecraft to similar forces and stress experienced during liftoff, allowing engineers to better prepare it for…

Seeing Titan with Infrared Eyes
Seeing Titan with Infrared Eyes

These six infrared images of Saturn’s moon Titan represent some of the clearest, most seamless-looking global views of the icy…

Ferocious Ferguson Fire in California Threatens Mariposa–Again
Ferocious Ferguson Fire in California Threatens Mariposa–Again

Ferguson Fire in California threatens residents of Mariposa one year to the day they were evacuated a year ago for…

Churning in the Chukchi Sea
Churning in the Chukchi Sea

Regardless of the amount of winter ice cover, the waters off of the Alaskan coast usually come alive each spring…

Team Powers On AA-2 Orion Module, Preps for Flight Test Simulation
Team Powers On AA-2 Orion Module, Preps for Flight Test Simulation

The team of engineers outfitting the Orion test article for Ascent Abort-2 have had a busy summer. Since the arrival…

A Merger of Stars
A Merger of Stars

Launched 15 years ago, the Spitzer Space Telescope has made many discoveries, including this detection of the merger of two…

Planet Six
Planet Six

This was Cassini’s view from orbit around Saturn on Jan. 2, 2010.

NASA Juno Data Indicate Another Possible Volcano on Jupiter Moon Io
NASA Juno Data Indicate Another Possible Volcano on Jupiter Moon Io

Juno’s JIRAM instrument points to a new heat source close to the south pole of Io that could indicate a…