Piloted by NASA's Tim Williams, the ER-2 science aircraft ascends for one of the final science flights for the GSFC Lidar ...

Space-grade plastic-packaged components serve as building blocks for low-Earth-orbit satellite payloads that perform optical, ...

NASA's ER-2 science aircraft flew instruments designed to improve satellite data products and Earth science observations.

The mission, jointly operated by the United States and India, will measure minute changes to land, ice, and ecosystems around ...

Titan’s coastlines lack river deltas, surprising scientists and raising questions about its active surface processes.

In 1999, for instance, NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter disintegrated ... and this required a precise radar system to scan and map the terrain during descent. The EDL team tested the radar by ...

NASA’s new PUNCH mission just opened its eyes to space, capturing its first images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere and the ...

Cosmonauts will join the veteran spacefarer's return after 220 days in space. In a remarkable coincidence, NASA astronaut Don Pettit will mark his 70th birthday with a fiery reentry through Earth ...

A veteran NASA astronaut who flew to orbit more than seven months ago with two Russians is preparing to return to Earth. Don Pettit, who arrived Sept. 11, 2024 for his third-ever stint at the ...

NASA has found a large hole on Mars ... the planet is bombarded by deadly levels of cosmic and solar radiation. However, life may have survived below these caves in the soil, protected by natural ...

NASA attempted to retain her by reassigning her to a newly created role NASA's JPL attempted to retain her by reassigning her to a newly created role of Chief of the Office of Team Excellence and ...