
The first Cygnus commercial cargo spacecraft built by Orbital Sciences Corp.

Middle and high school students from the Beat the Streets-Baltimore STEM Wrestling Camp look at the largest vacuum chamber at…

Four images from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with color data from the Ralph instrument to…

This 70mm frame shows the 50,162-pound Chandra X-ray Observatory before it was tilted upward for its release from the Space…

Kepler’s search for an Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star like our sun

This artistic concept depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the…

Kepler-452b: Earth’s Bigger, Older Cousin

The first fully automated and uniform process of the entire Kepler data set yields increases planet candidate count by 521…

Kepler planet candidates by size as of July 2015.

Twelve new Kepler habitable zone planets less than twice the size of Earth surface