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The launch platform at Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 34, seen here from below with the Apollo 1 patch superimposed, still stands 50 years later as a memorial to the fallen astronauts. HOUSTON — A football field used by the schools surrounding NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston will take on a new name later this […]

By Steve Spaleta | January 23, 2017 12:25pm ET The first set of images from the GOES-16 satellite have been released by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (N0AA). The geostationary satellite will be used for weather forecasting, severe storm tracking and more. [See the Photos] credit : NOAA/NASA/mash mix: Space.com Watch more  ► Shows Skylon […]

The title for December’s eighth installment of the “Star Wars” episodic series has been announced as “The Last Jedi .” It’s the second time the Jedi have been named in a “Star Wars” film title, but also the third time the title “The Last Jedi” has been used for a story. In 1981, Mike W. […]

More than 460 million years ago, a massive solar-system collision generated many of the meteorites still falling to Earth. Now, researchers are probing the meteors that came before that event. Many meteorites found on Earth are remnants of one titanic solar-system collision that took place more than 460 million years ago. But for the first […]

This graphic shows a so-called photonic Mach cone, which is sort of like a sonic boom; but in this instance, you can see the cone-shaped wake of light pulses. Just as aircraft flying at supersonic speeds create cone-shaped sonic booms, pulses of light can leave behind cone-shaped wakes of light. Now, a superfast camera has […]

Mary Jackson was one of the “human computers” portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures.” In the 1960s, Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn and others absorbed the accolades of being the first men in space. Behind the scenes, they were supported by hundreds of unheralded NASA workers, including “human computers” who did the […]

Near Space Corp.’s High Altitude Shuttle System (HASS), a drone that carries new technologies to high altitudes for testing, was used to simulate the return of a spacecraft through controlled airspace. A drone that drops into flight from a high-altitude balloon is helping the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to test new technologies for surveillance of […]

Three views of the Apollo Basin taken with NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument on India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. The false-color image on the right reveals composition, which can help scientists discover the history of the moon’s surface and impact craters. The rocky worlds of the solar system may bear scars from the debris that didn’t quite […]

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Aki Hoshide, Expedition 32 flight engineer, uses a digital still camera to take a photo of his helmet visor, with reflections of planet Earth and the International Space Station, during a spacewalk on Sept. 5, 2012. To source

BEAM, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, is highlighted in its expanded configuration in this computer rendering. WASHINGTON — Bigelow Aerospace is in discussions with NASA about extended use of an experimental module  added to the International Space Station last year, but both the company and the space agency say no agreement has been reached yet. In […]

Saturn’s icy moon Mimas highlights with shadows the vast size of Herschel Crater and its centerpiece Herschel peak. The image was captured by Cassini’s narrow-angle camera on October 22, 2016 using several of its spectral filters. Saturn’s moon Mimas glows a shining white in this photo from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Dominating the image is Mimas’ […]