Missions
University Returns $3 Million in Savings to NASA
Here's something you don't read everyday: The University of Colorado at Boulder returned nearly $3 million in cost savings to…
Latest Phoenix Images: Ice or Salt?
The Phoenix lander team revealed the latest images from the mission at a press briefing on Friday. This first image…
Ulysses Mission to End After 17 Years
For more than 17 years the Ulysses spacecraft studied the sun, pioneering solar science and defining our knowledge of the…
“Shake, Shake, Shake” Gets Soil into Phoenix TEGA
When Bill Boynton announced at a Phoenix lander team meeting earlier today that the troublesome, clumpy Martian soil now sits,…
Phoenix Will Try New “Sprinkle” Technique
Phoenix "vibrates" to move soil through a screen. New motto for the Phoenix spacecraft: If at first you don't succeed,…
Where Is the New Horizons Spacecraft?
Even though New Horizons is the speediest spacecraft ever to travel through our solar system, it still has a long…
Images From The STS-124 Mission
The crew of the STS-124 mission has been busy installing equipment on the International Space Station, fixing a toilet, and…
Closest Images Ever of Mars Dust Grains
"To see a world in a grain of sand…" – English Poet William Blake The Phoenix science team tested out…
Odyssey Possibly Hit by High-Energy Particles; Phoenix Science Run About to Begin
NASA's Mars Odyssey has been switched into "safe-mode" after possibly being hit by energetic particles from the Sun, or by…
Phoenix Digs on Mars
Phoenix's first dig in the Martian soil. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ University of Arizona The Phoenix lander used its robotic arm…