As a writer for the NASA Web site’s students’ and educators’ pages, Heather Smith has written quite a few stories about students and teachers flying experiments on NASA’s reduced-gravity aircraft. Now ...

The name "blue lurker" might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open star ...

MAVEN was conducting routine operations, passing behind Mars in its normal orbit, when the communication failure occurred. It’s not uncommon for spacecraft to lose contact when they pass behind a ...

In a teleconference with reporters on Tuesday, representatives from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the international Solar Cycle Prediction Panel announced that ...