WASHINGTON — NASA’s flagship Pleiades supercomputer just received a boost to help keep pace with the intensive number-crunching requirements of scientists and engineers working on some of the agency’s most…

WASHINGTON — A new university-led study with NASA participation finds ancient Antarctica was much warmer and wetter than previously suspected. The climate was suitable to support substantial vegetation — including…

WASHINGTON — NASA has selected an ocean wind study proposal led by the University of Michigan from among 19 submitted to the agency’s Announcement of Opportunity for small spaceflight investigations…

China’s Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, powered by a Long March 2F rocket, was shown live on state television from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert in western China.  On…

WASHINGTON — The first of four instruments to fly aboard NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has been delivered to NASA. The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) will allow scientists to study…

China has announced the three people it will be sending up for its first manned docking spaceflight, to be launched Saturday, June 16. The crew of the Shenzhou 9 space docking mission met…

Update 6/15/12 – A beta-gamma-delta field in AR1504 has developed. This could store energy for strong solar flares. NOAA  estimates a 65% chance of M-flares and a 5% chance of…

Today, 6/14/12, A asteroid the size of a city block will fly by the earth. The astrtoid is named 2012 LZ1. Astrinomers estimate it is about 1,650 feet, or 500…