Opportunity, the decade-old Mars rover that has surprised everyone by exploring for more than a decade after its mission ended, is showing signs of slowing down. Now, NASA has a plan to hack it.
A giant, state-of-art balloon carrying a telescope to detect gamma rays was supposed to fly over Antarctica for 100 days. Instead, the balloon sprung a leak almost immediately
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is the most sensitive high-energy X-ray telescope ever invented. It recently took its first picture of the Sun, seen above; an incredible image showing emissions of energies between 3 and 5 kiloelectron volts.
In this image, you can see the European Space Agency's Expose-R2 project. The unit, attached to the outside of the ISS, contains 46 species of bacteria, fungi and arthropods, which will all be tested to see if they can cope with the stresses of space.
This weekend saw the 75th anniversary of the world-famous Ames aeronautics research centre in California. To celebrate, we present the following set of gorgeous images selected from the NASA archives.
An interior camera is pointed away from the Earth's surface at the plasma trail produced by the module as slams through the atmosphere at 20,000 miles per hour.
In May 2013, NASA's exoplanet-seeking spacecraft, Kepler, seemed doomed. Yesterday, it announced the discovery of a brand-new super-Earth 180 light years from our own.
It's the first time NASA has sent hardware to the ISS without having to use a rocket.
From the minute we started sending humans into space, authorised and unauthorised paraphernalia have gone with them. Here are a few items that have reached where most of us will never go.
The huge structure in Mississippi is a massive folly, designed for a launch cancelled years ago.
Solar winds plays havoc with electronics here on Earth, so scientists want to ensure early warnings are in place.
Traces of gas hint towards alien life on the Red Planet. That, or he who smelt it, dealt it, Curiosity.
NASA's Super Guppy aircraft—the airplane that carries the space agency's biggest loads — sits overnight at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In fact, it had just carried the fuselage of another aircraft, due to be tested at the centre.
Back in the 1980s, NASA's Voyager spacecraft made a brief flyby of Saturn's moons, providing us with a tantalising glimpse of new worlds. Now, the Cassini mission has finished the job, providing us with high-resolution, colour maps of Saturn's six icy moons.
Bad puns, gratuitous use of rocket backdrops, and surprisingly OK vocals. Give it a watch.
Last year, Luca Parmitano nearly drowned in his own fluids during a spacewalk. Now, NASA has teamed with the Houston Methodist Hospital's research institute to make sure that such a thing never happens again
