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At approximately 02:00 CEST on Sunday, September 28th, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope automatically entered safe mode due to errors being detected in the Control Unit/Science Data Formatter-Side A.
Read MoreGrant money has been awarded from NASA to 10 research teams from across the country to study the origins, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. The teams won grants that average US$7 million for a five-year study.
Read MoreNASA will conduct the second of three flybys of Mercury on October 6 to photograph most of its remaining unseen surface and collect science data. The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging, or MESSENGER, spacecraft will pass 125 miles above the planet's cratered surface, taking more than 1200 pictures. The flyby also will provide a critical gravity assist needed for the probe to become, in March
Read MoreNASA isn't referring to caring for a dog, rather a new NASA contest challenges college-level students to design tools or instrument packages that could be used on the next generation of human-driven moon rovers.
Read MoreAir Force Research Laboratory officials recently partnered with NASA to conduct materials experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Read MoreSo far NASA doesn't have a requisition order to equip Mars Lander with snow shoes, but snow falling from Martian clouds has been detected. Spacecraft soil test experiments also have provided evidence of past interaction between minerals and liquid water, processes that occur on Earth.
Read MoreEver since NASA has been studying Mars, on its surface and from afar, we've been treated to some wondrous revelations. Now the Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that billions of years ago directed flows of water through underground Martian sandstone.
Read MoreNASA's Stardust sample return capsule brought home the world's first particles from a comet to join the collection of flight elite in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. The capsule will go on public display in the museum's Milestones of Flight Gallery on October 1, the 50th anniversary of NASA.
Read MoreThree instruments from European companies have now been delivered to the Indian Space Agency for that agency's Chandrayaan-1 mission to the Moon. The instruments have now been fully tested and integrated with the spacecraft.
Read MoreThe Chinese Shenzhou-7 (Sacred Vessel) astronauts have landed back on earth, safely, but somewhat shaken up, thanks to the land-based bouncing their capsule received.
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