At our semi-weekly contact on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, we found the Kepler spacecraft once again in safe mode. original
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NASA Hosts Kepler Spacecraft Status Teleconference Today
NASA will host a news teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, today, May 15, to discuss the status of the agency’s Kepler Space Telescope. original
Kepler Mission Manager Update
During a scheduled contact, engineers discovered Kepler was in a self-protective mode. The spacecraft returned to science data collection on May 6. original
Kepler Mission Manager Update
The team recently completed a monthly science data download, marking the successful completion of Quarter 16 flight operations. original
NASA TV Briefing Discusses Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Results
NASA will hold a news conference at 1:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 3, to discuss the first results of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment. AMS is a state-of-the-art cosmic ray particle physics detector located on the exterior of the International Space Station. To source
Watch Live @ 9 pm ET: Slooh Earth Day Webcast
The Slooh community observatory will be celebrating Earth Day on Saturday (April 22), with a webcast beginning at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT). During the webcast, members of the public will share the things they’d miss most about Earth if they had to go to space, while two astronauts will name the things they did […]
2016 Moon Phases Calendar
Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, 10:31 a.m. EST. The last or third quarter moon rises around 11:30 p.m. and sets around 12:15 p.m. It is most easily seen just after sunrise in the southern sky. Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of […]
Amazing Mars Photos by NASA's Curiosity Rover (Latest Images)
This illustration provides a comparison for how big the moons of Mars appear to be, as seen from the surface of Mars, in relation to the size that Earth’s moon appears to be when seen from the surface of Earth. Deimos, at far left, and Phobos, beside it, are shown together as they actually were […]
Watch Live! Now: 2017 Astronaut Class Interviews, Later: NASA Budget Hearing
[embedded content] NASA’s newest astronauts are meeting the press in a series of televised interviews today through 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT). Space.com’s Hanneke Weitering will interview astronaut candidate Robb Kulin, formerly of SpaceX, at 11:20 a.m. EDT (1520 GMT). Tune in! Main Story: NASA Reveals 12 New Astronauts for Earth Orbit, Deep Space Missions What’s […]
Exoplanets: Worlds Beyond Our Solar System
The youngest exoplanet yet discovered is less than 1 million years old and orbits Coku Tau 4, a star 420 light-years away. Astronomers inferred the planet’s presence from an enormous hole in the dusty disk that girdles the star. The hole is 10 times the size of Earth’s orbit around the Sun and probably caused […]
Water on Mars: Exploration & Evidence
Liquid water may still flow on Mars, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to spot. The search for water on the Red Planet has taken more than 15 years to turn up definitive signs that liquid flows on the surface today. In the past, however, rivers and oceans may have covered the land. Where did […]
Destination Pluto: NASA's New Horizons Mission in Pictures
New Horizons space probe provides the highest resolution image of Pluto ever seen as presented in a NASA press conference on July 15, 2015, at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland. This region near Pluto’s equator surprisingly contains a range of youthful mountains rising to heights of 11,000 feet (3,500 m) above […]
Astronomers Discover Planetary Odd Couple
Astronomers have discovered a pair of neighboring planets with dissimilar densities orbiting very close to each other. original