NASA's MESSENGER to Examine Earth's Evil Twin
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Picture this: A spaceship swoops in from the void, plunging toward a cloudy planet about the size of Earth. A laser beam lances out from the ship; it probes the planet's clouds, striving to reach the hidden surface below.
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NASA officials said today they will review their psychological screening process in the wake of an astronautâs arrest Monday.
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NASAâs Messenger spacecraft has captured a new view of the planet Mercury.
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WASHINGTON -- NASA has created a new office to study in more detail some of the universe's most exotic phenomena: dark energy, black holes and cosmic microwave background radiation.
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NASA released one of the best pictures ever made of Saturn's moon Titan as the Cassini spacecraft begins a close-up inspection of the satellite today. Cassini is making the nearest flyby ever of the smog-shrouded moon.
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NASA launched a 24-hour global pollution monitoring service yesterday that will eventually allow scientists to give daily âchemical forecastsâ from space.
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As NASA's Messenger probe returns the first pictures ever taken of the unseen side of Mercury, we see an aging, shrinking planet scarred by volcanic eruptions, as well as a startling, spider-shaped crater.
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BIG BLOW UP: NASA scientists later this month will send the spacecraft Deep Impact (named after the 1998 movie about a comet headed for Earth) to blast a crater into Comet Tempel 1.
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Nasa gives details of a space mission to crash a projectile into a comet and peel away its outer skin to look inside.
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Scientists discuss their prefered targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.
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A NASA-led team is studying the construction of a railway in space for a pair of telescopes that will provide views of planet, star, and galaxy formation in unprecedented detail. The proposed Space Infrared Interferometric Telescope (SPIRIT) mission will also examine the atmospheric chemistry of giant planets around other stars.
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NASA said Wednesday it will examine its psychological screening process for astronauts in light of the bizarre behavior by shuttle astronaut Lisa Nowak, who is charged with attempted murder.
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Scientists are eagerly awaiting new images and observations Monday when a NASA spacecraft flies over Mercury in the first visit in almost 33 years to the mysterious small planet.
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NASA has is to send a probe on a collision course with a comet&#39;s nucleus to find out more about the composition and history of the bodies.
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A new spacecraft is being readied to make the fastest, most detailed study yet of the fleeting gamma ray bursts emanating from deep in space.
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Next Fourth of July, NASA will slam a heavy probe the size of a garbage can    into a comet, purposely carving a football-field sized crater for inspection.    As for&nbsp;what exactly&nbsp;will happen,&nbsp;however, nobody really knows.
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By Bradley Olson, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 8--After a bizarre case in which an astronaut stands accused of  trying to kill an apparent romantic rival, NASA announced yesterday that it  would conduct a thorough review of the psychological testing conducted on  astronauts.