NASA Funds 6 Futuristic Space Exploration Tech Ideas

NASA has granted funding to six next-generation technology concepts that it believes could help advance humanity's understanding and e...

NASA's Ironman-Like Exoskeleton Could Give Astronauts, Paraplegics Improved Mobility and Strength

Marvel Comic's fictional superhero, Ironman, uses a powered armor suit that allows him superhuman strength. While NASA's X1 robotic...

Japanese Space Freighter Heading to Station

The fourth Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) H-II Transfer Vehicle, or HTV-4, launched aboard...

First Testing of Orion Launch Abort System Flight Hardware

NASA engineers and contractors have begun tests on NASA’s Launch Abort System (LAS) Fairing Assembly, flight hardware that will be used to...

NASA's Orion Program First Fairing Separation Test Provides Data To Validate Design

NASA is carrying out a series of tests to ensure the agency's Orion spacecraft can successfully jettison its p...

Orion Test Vehicle Undergoes Second Pyro Bolt Test

In October 2012, Lockheed Martin workers prepared the Orion ground test vehicle for the first series of pyro...

Partnerships Make Missions Possible

A relationship that began more than 50 years ago between NASA and Textron Defense Systems continues today through the ...

Tenth Parachute Test for NASA's Orion Adds 10,000 Feet of Success

WASHINGTON -- A complicated, high-altitude test Wednesday demonstrated NASA's new Orion spacecraft could land safely even if one of it...

NASA - Orbital Sciences Launch .

Antares leaves the pad on its way to a successful orbit. NASA Photo WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- NASA commercial space partner Orbital Sciences...

NASA Voyager 1 Encounters New Region in Deep Space

PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region at the far reaches of our...

NASA's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our 'Solar Bubble'

PASADENA, Calif. -- Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from ...

NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Reveals Forces Controlling Saturn Moon Jets

PASADENA, Calif. -- The intensity of the jets of water ice and organic particles that shoot out from Saturn's ...

NASA's Space Launch System Program PDR: Answers to the Acronym

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) Program recently completed its preliminary design review, commonly referred to as PDR. A quick inquiry...

NASA's Curiosity Nearing First Anniversary on Mars

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Curiosity rover will mark one year on Mars next week and has already achieved its...

Seeing Which Way the Wind Blows: New Doppler Radar Takes Flight on This Summer's HS3 Mission

Most aircraft carrying Doppler radar look like they’ve grown a tail, developed a dorsal fin, o...

Japanese Vehicle Delivers New Hardware for NASA’s Robotic Refueling Mission

The Robotic Refueling Mission investigation (center, on platform) uses the ...

Are Robot Warriors Finally Coming ?

Despite the success of armed flying drones , their counterparts on the ground have never made it over the starting line. The Pentagon'...