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NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission to Provide 1st 3-D View of Earth’s Magnetic Reconnection Process – Cleanroom visit with Bolden
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden poses with the agency’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft, mission personnel, Goddard Center Director Chris Scolese and…
NASA West Antarctic Ice Sheet Findings: Glacier Loss Appears Unstoppable
It’s a key piece of the climate change puzzle. For years, researchers have been eyeing the stability of the Western…
Asteroid 2013 UQ4 Suddenly Becomes a Dark Comet with a Bright Future
On October 23, 2013, astronomers with the Catalina Sky Survey picked up a very faint asteroid with an unusual orbit more…
Infographic: Sci-Fi Books That Predicted The Future
A moon rocket thundering from a pad in Florida. Two moons discovered around Mars. Space tourism. These are all things…
Imagine What Could Be Done With a “Penny4NASA”
If you're reading this then you're probably a big fan of space exploration. And while on one hand you could…
Pingpong! How You Could Send Something Small High In The Atmosphere
Spring is a time of treasures in eggs -- think about the Easter weekend that just passed, for example, or…
Follow-Up on Skydiving Meteorite: Crowdsourcing Concludes it Was Just a Rock
For all those involved with the initial investigation of the skydiver and the possible meteorite, they now feel they have…
Neil Armstrong: Why The World Needs ‘Nerdy Engineers’ (In Animated Form)
Combine the gravitas of humanity's first moon visitor with the whimsy of animation, and the result is pure fun. Here,…
Happy Pi Day: 5 Ways NASA Uses Pi
Got circles on the brain today? It’s Pi Day -- (3/14 for those of us on the west side of…
Infographic Shows The Quick-Changing Satellites Of The Early Space Age
It's not often that one associates a satellite with French folk songs, but this infographic does that and more. Below…