There's a problem with your browser or settings.

Your browser or your browser's settings are not supported. To get the best experience possible, please download a compatible browser. If you know your browser is up to date, you should check to ensure that javascript is enabled.

› Learn How

Follow this link to skip to the main content

For Public |
For Educators |
For Students |
For Media |
For Policymakers |
For Employees |
MyNASA
- Send
- Follow this link to Share This Page
  Share

NASA Events:

NASA Data Shed New Light About Water and Volcanoes on Mars

Data from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest liquid water has interacted with the Martian surface throughout the planet's history and into modern times.

› Learn More

Amateur Astronomers are First to Detect Objects Impacting Jupiter

Amateur astronomers were the first to detect two small objects that burned up in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Astronomers at NASA and other institutions followed up on the discovery and gathered detailed information on the objects.

› Learn More

C3-class Solar Flare Erupted on Wednesday

Just as sunspot 1105 was turning away from Earth on Sept. 8, the active region erupted, producing a solar flare and a fantastic prominence, hurling a bright coronal mass ejection into space. The eruption was not directed toward any planets.

› Learn More | › View Video

Deadly Tides Mean Early Exit for 'Hot Jupiters'

Bad news for planet hunters: most of the "hot Jupiters" that astronomers have been searching for in star clusters were likely destroyed long ago by their stars. Scientists offer this new explanation for why no transiting planets have been found yet.

› Learn More

Mars Rover Opportunity Reaches Halfway Point of Long Trek

With a drive of 364 feet on Monday, Sept. 8, the Mars rover Opportunity reached the estimated halfway point of the approximately 12-mile journey from Victoria Crater to the western rim of Endeavour Crater.

› Learn More

Progress 39 Launches to Resupply the International Space Station

The Expedition 24 crew is preparing for the arrival of the Progress 39 cargo craft to replenish the orbiting laboratory with food, fuel, supplies and other cargo. The Progress 39 will dock to the aft end of the Zvezda service module on Sunday.

› Learn More | › About the Progress Resupply Craft

Desert RATS: The Future of Human Space Exploration

To see what life might be like on a distant planet, one only need travel to the Arizona desert, where NASA's Research and Technology Studies, or Desert RATS, is testing rovers, habitats and robots that could be used in future missions.

› Learn More

NASA Images

Dr. Werner von Braun and President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ushering in the Future

Dr. Werhner von Braun, Marshall Space Flight Center's first director, points out a detail regarding the first stage of the Saturn rocket to President...