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On April 12, 2011, NASA announced that it was celebrating and commemorating 50 years of space flight and 30 years of Shuttle flights. The agency will put four Shuttle orbiters on permanent display for the public at locations to be announced. Shuttle Enterprise, the first orbiter built, will move from the Smithsonian’s National Air and...
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WASHINGTON — U.S. high school students are invited to participate in NASA’s Interdisciplinary National Science Program Incorporating Research Experience, or INSPIRE, through an online learning community. INSPIRE is designed to encourage students in ninth through 12th grades to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Applications are being accepted through June 30....
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WASHINGTON — NASA will score big on super SUN-day at 11 a.m. EST, Sunday, Feb. 6, with the release online of the first complete view of the sun’s entire surface and atmosphere. Seeing the whole sun front and back simultaneously will enable significant advances in space weather forecasting for Earth, and improve planning for...
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WASHINGTON — The International Space Station partner agencies met Thursday, Feb. 3, by videoconference to discuss coordinating the increased use of the space station as a research laboratory. The agencies want to continue using the station as a test-bed for exploration and find innovative ways to reduce costs while increasing use. The Multilateral Coordination...
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WASHINGTON — NASA and 14 international space agencies are challenging students to complete a nutrition and fitness program known as “Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut.” Approximately 3,700 students from more than 25 different cities worldwide are participating in this six-week pilot project. NASA’s Human Research Program is sponsoring the U.S. component of the...
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WASHINGTON — Global surface temperatures in 2010 tied 2005 as the warmest on record, according to an analysis released Wednesday by researchers at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The two years differed by less than 0.018 degrees Fahrenheit. The difference is smaller than the uncertainty in comparing the temperatures...
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NASA announced that its Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system. The discovery of this so-called exoplanet is based on more than eight months of data collected by the spacecraft from May...
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WASHINGTON — An international robotics competition that develops the next generation of technology leaders kicks off this weekend. NASA, the largest sponsor of the FIRST Robotics Competition, and its centers across the nation will join local technology firms to launch the event at 10:30 a.m. EST Saturday, Jan. 8. The event at Southern New...
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WASHINGTON – State-of-the-art seismological techniques applied to Apollo-era data suggest our moon has a core similar to Earth’s. Uncovering details about the lunar core is critical for developing accurate models of the moon’s formation. The data sheds light on the evolution of a lunar dynamo — a natural process by which our moon may...
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WASHINGTON — NASA will give 100 of its Twitter followers an insider look at its planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft and the agency’s Ames Research Center on Feb. 11 in Moffett Field in California. For the first time, NASA’s Twitter followers are being invited to Ames to learn about planetary discoveries from Kepler and the science...
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