NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to begin the first extended visit to a large asteroid. The mission expects to go into orbit around Vesta on July 16 and begin...NASA From ACM News | June 24, 2011
NASA scientists are making new discoveries about the planet Mercury. Data from MESSENGER, the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, is giving scientists important...NASA From ACM News | June 17, 2011
Observations from NASA's Voyager spacecraft, humanity's farthest deep space sentinels, suggest the edge of our solar system may not be smooth, but filled with...NASA From ACM News | June 10, 2011
NASA is ending attempts to regain contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated on March 22, 2010.NASA From ACM News | May 25, 2011
Astronomers, including a NASA-funded team member, have discovered a new class of Jupiter-sized planets floating alone in the dark of space, away from the light...NASA From ACM News | May 19, 2011
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has obtained its first image of the giant asteroid Vesta, which will help fine-tune navigation during its approach. Dawn is expected to...NASA From ACM News | May 11, 2011
To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md...NASA From ACM News | April 20, 2011
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft successfully achieved orbit around Mercury at approximately 9 p.m. EDT Thursday. This marks the first time a spacecraft has accomplished...NASA From ACM News | March 18, 2011
A bonus round is something one usually associates with the likes of a TV game show, not a pioneering deep space mission. "We are definitely in the bonus round...NASA From ACM News | February 11, 2011
The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind.NASA From ACM News | December 14, 2010
NASA's EPOXI mission successfully flew by comet Hartley 2 at about 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT) today, and the spacecraft has begun returning images. Hartley 2 is...NASA From ACM News | November 4, 2010
Getting into space isn't necessarily easy for astronauts, and it's not much easier for a robotic astronaut, either.NASA From ACM News | August 11, 2010
A new image from the Planck mission shows what it's been up to for the past year--surveying the entire sky for clues to our universal origins.NASA From ACM News | July 6, 2010
Congressional staffers in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 20 were wondering why a robot was roaming the halls. Those who followed the robot were led to...NASA From ACM News | May 28, 2010