The Mars Science Lab rover Curiosity safely touched down exactly as planned on Mars at 1:31am eastern time. It was a best case scenario all around as the controllers at JPL had telemetry for…

Excitement builds as the latest Mars Rover Curiosity is due to land on Mars at 1:31 a.m., EDT on Monday, Aug. 6. You can watch the landing live on NASA TV by clicking…

(Source NASA) PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft is healthy and right on course for a landing in several hours that will be one of the most difficult…

NASA – The car-size rover’s very first images will come from the one-megapixel Hazard-Avoidance cameras (Hazcams) attached to the body of the rover. Once engineers have determined that it is…

WASHINGTON — The Toshiba Vision screen in New York City’s Times Square will become the largest East Coast location for the public to see live mission coverage of Curiosity, NASA’s…

A CME cloud is heading for Earth from Sunspot AR1532. The forecast track prepared by analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab shows the CME will reach our planet on…

Scotch tape is the inspiration behind a completely new kind of x-ray mirror for telescopes. The concept was dreamed up by Maxim Markevich a NASA Scientist. “I remember looking at…

WASHINGTON — As part of NASA’s ongoing live coverage of mission operations aboard the International Space Station, NASA Television will broadcast the attempted redocking of an unpiloted Russian cargo spacecraft…