Watch NASA Scientists' Emotional Reaction to Successfully Landing Robot on Surface of Mars
The researchers had to orchestrate their robot's landing sequence after it hit the Martian atmosphere going 12,300 miles per hour – and they succeeded.
The researchers had to orchestrate their robot's landing sequence after it hit the Martian atmosphere going 12,300 miles per hour – and they succeeded.
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For the first time ever, scientists have managed to capture an image of a supermassive black hole - and the results are breathtaking.
If you're a younger or middle-aged woman who can speak German, then NASA might pay you thousands of dollars to stay in bed for two months.
Two female astronauts are set to make history later this month by becoming the first all-women crew to conduct a spacewalk from the ISS.
The brightest object in the universe is emitting light from close to the beginning of time – which is roughly 12.8 billion light years away.
The Smithsonian launched a crowdfunding campaign to save the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the first moon walk and donations have skyrocketed.
A time of 11 years, two months isn't much to brag about if you're running the Boston Marathon. It's pretty good if you're on Mars. NASA's "Opportunity" rover has finally traveled 26.2 miles from its landing site — the length of a standard marathon race — across the surface of Mars.
Don't miss it: a harvest moon eclipsed for three hours will produce an awe-inspiring red glow—and appear to be 14% closer to earth.
Even though she was well known as a physicist, Sally Ride became famous for being the first American woman astronaut to enter space. A trailblazer at age 32, when the 1983 Challenger mission launched, she also became, and remains, the youngest American to enter space. Ride died peacefully on July 23, after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, according to the obituary released by her company, Sally Ride Science, which creates programs to keep preteens and their teachers engaged in science.
The massive Space Shuttle Endeavour rolled carefully through the streets of Los Angeles today, creeping slowly towards its final resting place at the California Science Center. People lined the streets pointing their cameras as the five-story-tall spacecraft with its 78-foot wingspan wound along its journey.
Space farming reached an important milestone this week when astronauts got to eat fresh salad greens grown aboard the International Space Station.
The most Earth-like planet yet, with an orbit that makes temperatures "just right" for supporting life, has been discovered 1,400 light years away.
Talk about the ultimate space jam. The song is called I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing), and it's billed as the first space-Earth musical collaboration. It's a very long-distance project from Canadians Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies and Chris Hadfield, who currently commands the International Space Station. The song was released in a video Feb 8, 2013.
A girl used 11 cars to write a short message spread over 1,300 acres so her father could read it from space.
Four men trapped under 10 feet of rubble were rescued in Nepal thanks to a heartbeat-detection device developed by NASA and the Dept. of Homeland Security.
NASA releases GoPro video of astronauts Butch Wilmore and Terry Verts conducting spacewalks on the International Space Station (ISS).
Astronaut Leland Devon Melvin is an engineer, athlete, and NASA mission specialist, but he's also a proud pup papa, and wants the entire universe to know it.
On Saturday and Sunday, volunteers will be hard at work in a marathon session of computer coding, engineering and general brainstorming as part of the annual International Space Apps Challenge.
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