Solar Powered Airplane Makes First Intercontinental Round-trip Flight
Caption: The Solar Impulse airplane in flight during on July 24, 2012. Credit: Solar Impulse/ Jean Revillard A unique airplane…
Will Curiosity Look for Life on Mars? Not Exactly…
"Curiosity is not a life detection mission. We're not actually looking for life and we don't have the ability to…
Greenland Glacier Calves Another Huge Ice Island
Petermann glacier, a 70 km (43 mile) long tongue of ice that flows into the Arctic Ocean in northwest Greenland,…
Carnival of Space #259
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Gadi Eidelheit at his Transit of Venus blog. Click here to read…
Sally Ride, First American Woman in Space, Passes Away
Dr. Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, died today, July 23, 2012. She was 61 years…
Flashback: 1978 NASA Film Shows Viking Discoveries
In what's a sort of foreshadowing of the upcoming August 5 MSL landing, which is being called "seven minutes of…
Hypersonic Inflatable Heat Shield Tested Successfully
Caption: IRVE-3 was launched by a sounding rocket at 7:01 a.m. Mon., July 23, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. Credit:…
The Top 5 “Earth as Art” Images, Thanks to Landsat
NASA's first Earth-observing Landsat satellite launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on July 23, 1972, and to celebrate the 40th…
HI-C Returns Most Detailed Images Ever of the Sun’s Corona
NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) mission, launched Wednesday, July 11 from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, successfully returned…
An Orbital Adagio: Nighttime Views from the ISS
People keep making these videos from ISS photography, and we keep loving them. Here's the latest, assembled by photographer Knate…