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The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) satellite has resumed operations after switching from its primary to its backup laser nearly three years after the launch of a satellite that is helping scientists solve the puzzle of how clouds and aerosols affect Earth's climate.
Read MoreSpace Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has signed an agreement with CONAE, Argentina’s National Commission on Space Activity, for two launches aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 medium-to-heavy lift vehicle.
Read MoreThe past four weeks have been dedicated to the final Planck spacecraft preparations in the S1B clean room, and is now ready to move to the S5A building for fueling at Europe's Spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre, Kourou.
Read MorePhotos are in from NASA's Kepler mission revealing the beautiful Milky Way galaxy and some eight-billion-year-old cluster of stars.
Read MoreHeading into a period of the Martian year prone to major dust storms, the team operating NASA's twin Mars rovers is taking advantage of eye-in-the-sky weather reports.
Read MoreTwo identical NASA spacecraft are preparing to enter a point in the universe that may eventually answer the question of how our moon was born — they were launched in 2006 into Earth's orbit around the sun to obtain stereo pictures of the sun's surface and to measure magnetic fields and ion fluxes associated with solar explosions.
Read MoreBack in 2006, Cassini managed to capture a really unusual view of Earth from Saturn, with this image among those presented for viewer votes for IMAGE OF THE DAY awards.
Read MoreResearchers studying data from NASA's twin STEREO probes have found that ferocious solar storms called CMEs (coronal mass ejections) are shaped like a French pastry. The elegance and simplicity of the new "croissant model" is expected to dramatically improve forecasts of severe space weather.
Read MoreThe first mirror segment that will fly on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), built by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), has completed its first series of cryogenic temperature tests in the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. To give engineers absolute certainty the mirrors can withstand the rigors of space, they will be polished more and tested again.
Read MoreA large crater on Saturn's tiny moon Janus is distinctly visible in this Cassini spacecraft image.
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