NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver, fourth from left meets Blue Origin Founder Jeff Bezos, third from left, next to Blue…
NASA’s Curiosity rover and its rocket-powered descent vehicle pose for a portrait at JPL’s Spacecraft Assembly Facility. During a nearly…
This image, taken December 6, 2011, combines two separate views of the giant asteroid Vesta obtained by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft.…
Alan L. Bean, Lunar Module pilot for the Apollo 12 mission, starts down the ladder of the Lunar Module (LM)…
Echo II is shown here undergoing a tensile stress test in a dirigible hanger at Weekesville, North Carolina. A dirigible…
This artist’s conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. It…
In 2004, an international team of astronomers had, for the first time, observed a stellar “survivor” emerge from a double…
So much of our modern technology is at risk from space weather, including satellites, communications and power grids.
Schematic illustration of the invisible magnetic field lines generated by the Earth, represented as a dipole magnet field.
This diagram compares our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first “habitable zone” planet discovered by…