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New Commercial Rocket Descent Data May Help NASA with Future\nMars Landings

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NASA successfully captured thermal images of a SpaceX Falcon\n9 rocket on its descent after it launched in September from Cape\nCanaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The data from these thermal\nimages may provide critical engineering information for future\nmissions to the surface of Mars.

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NASA Partners with Leading Technology Innovators to Enable\nFuture Exploration

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Recognizing that technology drives exploration, NASA has\nselected four teams of agency technologists for participation in\nthe Early Career Initiative (ECI) pilot program. The program\nencourages creativity and innovation among early career NASA\ntechnologists by engaging them in hands-on technology development\nopportunities needed for future missions.

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Boeing Concludes Commercial Crew Space Act Agreement for\nCST-100/Atlas V

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Boeing has successfully completed the final milestone of its\nCommercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) Space Act Agreement\nwith NASA. The work and testing completed under the agreement\nresulted in significant maturation of Boeing’s crew transportation\nsystem, including the CST-100 spacecraft and Atlas V rocket.

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NASA Begins Sixth Year of Airborne Antarctic Ice Change\nStudy

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NASA is carrying out its sixth consecutive year of Operation\nIceBridge research flights over Antarctica to study changes in the\ncontinent’s ice sheet, glaciers and sea ice. This year’s airborne\ncampaign, which began its first flight Thursday morning, will\nrevisit a section of the Antarctic ice sheet that recently was\nfound to be in irreversible decline.

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NASA Spacecraft Provides New Information About Sun’s\nAtmosphere

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NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has\nprovided scientists with five new findings into how the sun’s\natmosphere, or corona, is heated far hotter than its surface, what\ncauses the sun’s constant outflow of particles called the solar\nwind, and what mechanisms accelerate particles that power solar\nflares.

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NASA TV to Air Russian Spacewalk from International Space\nStation

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NASA Television will broadcast live coverage of a six-hour\nspacewalk by two Russian crew members aboard the International\nSpace Station beginning at 9 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 22.

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NASA’s Hubble Finds Extremely Distant Galaxy through Cosmic\nMagnifying Glass

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Peering through a giant cosmic magnifying glass, NASA’s\nHubble Space Telescope has spotted a tiny, faint galaxy -- one of\nthe farthest galaxies ever seen. The diminutive object is estimated\nto be more than 13 billion light-years away.

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NASA’s Hubble Telescope Finds Potential Kuiper Belt Targets\nfor New Horizons Pluto Mission

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Peering out to the dim, outer reaches of our solar system,\nNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered three Kuiper Belt\nobjects (KBOs) the agency’s New Horizons spacecraft could\npotentially visit after it flies by Pluto in July 2015.

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NASA Soil Moisture Mapper Arrives at Launch Site

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A NASA spacecraft designed to track Earth's water in one of\nits most important, but least recognized forms -- soil moisture --\nnow is at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, to begin final\npreparations for launch in January.

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NASA’s Hubble Telescope Finds Potential Kuiper Belt Targets\nfor New Horizons Pluto Mission

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Peering out to the dim, outer reaches of our solar system,\nNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered three Kuiper Belt\nobjects (KBOs) the agency’s New Horizons spacecraft could\npotentially visit after it flies by Pluto in July 2015.

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NASA Mission Provides Its First Look at Martian Upper\nAtmosphere

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NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN)\nspacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of\nenergetic solar particles at Mars, produced unprecedented\nultraviolet images of the tenuous oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon\ncoronas surrounding the Red Planet, and yielded a comprehensive map\nof highly-variable ozone in the atmosphere underlying the\ncoronas.

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NASA Mission Provides Its First Look at Martian Upper\nAtmosphere

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NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN)\nspacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of\nenergetic solar particles at Mars, produced unprecedented\nultraviolet images of the tenuous oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon\ncoronas surrounding the Red Planet, and yielded a comprehensive map\nof highly-variable ozone in the atmosphere underlying the\ncoronas.

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NASA Mission Finds Widespread Evidence of Young Lunar\nVolcanism

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NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has provided\nresearchers strong evidence the moon’s volcanic activity slowed\ngradually instead of stopping abruptly a billion years ago.

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NASA Shares What MAVEN Spacecraft Has Seen in its First Few\nWeeks at Mars

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NASA will host a news teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday,\nOct. 14, to announce early science results from its Mars Atmosphere\nand Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission.

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NASA Mission Points to Origin of \“Ocean of Storms\” on Earth’s\nMoon

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Using data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior\nLaboratory (GRAIL), mission scientists have solved a lunar mystery\nalmost as old as the moon itself.

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NASA’s Newest Mars Mission Spacecraft Enters Orbit around Red\nPlanet

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NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN)\nspacecraft successfully entered Mars’ orbit at 10:24 p.m. EDT\nSunday, Sept. 21, where it now will prepare to study the Red\nPlanet’s upper atmosphere as never done before. MAVEN is the first\nspacecraft dedicated to exploring the tenuous upper atmosphere of\nMars.

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Hubble Helps Find Smallest Known Galaxy Containing a\nSupermassive Black Hole

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Astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and\nground observation have found an unlikely object in an improbable\nplace -- a monster black hole lurking inside one of the tiniest\ngalaxies ever known.

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NASA Mars Spacecraft Ready for Sept. 21 Orbit\nInsertion

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NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN)\nspacecraft is nearing its scheduled Sept. 21 insertion into Martian\norbit after completing a 10-month interplanetary journey of 442\nmillion miles.

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NASA to hold Sept. 17 Briefing on MAVEN Mars Orbit Insertion,\nEvents Coverage

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NASA will host a televised media briefing at 1 p.m. EDT,\nWednesday, Sept. 17, to outline activities around the Sunday, Sept.\n21 orbital insertion at Mars of the agency’s Mars Atmosphere and\nVolatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft. The briefing will be held in\nNASA’s Headquarters’ auditorium, 300 E Street SW in Washington, and\nbroadcast live on NASA Television and the agency’s website.

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NASA Instrument aboard European Spacecraft Returns First\nScience Results

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A NASA instrument aboard the European Space Agency’s (ESA's)\nRosetta orbiter has successfully made its first delivery of science\ndata from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

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