NASA Scientist Figures Way to Weigh Space Rock

These series of radar images of asteroid 1999 RQ36 were obtained by NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone,...
Herschel Sees Intergalactic Bridge Aglow With Stars

The Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The...
NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech

The Galaxy Next Door
At approximately 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda galaxy is our...
NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

New results from NASA's NEOWISE survey find that more potentially hazardous asteroids, or PHAs, are closely aligned...
Russia successfully launches manned spacecraft to ISS
Russia's spacecraft Soyuz TMA-04M with a crew of three blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, according to Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos.
NASA's New Carbon-Counting Instrument Leaves the Nest

Technicians prep the OCO-2 instrument for shipping at JPL. The instrument consists of three parallel, high-...
NASA Dawn Mission Reveals Secrets of Large Asteroid

Mineral Diversity at Vesta's South Pole
This image, made from data obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the...
Anti-malaria garment designed to drive away mosquitoes
A collaboration between a scientist and a designer from Africa has resulted in the creation of a fashionable hooded bodysuit embedded at the molecular level with insecticides for warding off mosquitoes infected with malaria.