Ringing in InSight’s Landing on the Red Planet
NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Melanie Saunders and astronaut Mike Massimino ring the closing bell of Nasdaq after the NASA's InSight lander successfully touched down...
InSight and MarCO, New Technologies Headed for the Red Planet
NASA social media participant Bryan Branly takes a photograph of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) model before the Mars InSight pre-landing briefing.
Exploding Stars Make Key Ingredient Found in Glass
A new study using observations by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reports for the first time that silica — one of the most common minerals...
20 Years Ago, Construction Began on the International Space Station
On Nov. 20, 1998, the Zarya Functional Cargo Block launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to serve as a temporary control module for the nascent...
SS John Young Cargo Craft Docks to Space Station
"Captured Cygnus today with @Astro_Alex…Proud to have The SS John Young on-board!" said astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor today, as the International Space Station crew brought...
Antares Seen from Washington D.C. Tidal Basin
The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard, is seen above the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC, on Nov. 17, 2018.
Finding an Elusive Star Behind a Supernova
Located 65 million light-years away ia a blue supergiant star that once existed inside a cluster of young stars in the spiral galaxy NGC...
A Scar That the Woolsey Fire Left Behind
In the wake of a fire, a burn scar appears which takes a long time to heal. This scar is from the Woolsey fire...
Raging Six-Day-Old Camp Fire Reaches 125,000 Acres in Size
The six day old Camp Fire has already attained the unfortunate title of California's deadliest fire.
Flooding Along the Nueces River
On Nov. 1, 2018, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured a false-color view of flooding along the Nueces River in a...
