After nine years of scanning the sky, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) space mission has concluded its observations of the cosmic microwave
The location is about 930,000 miles or (1.5 million km) away.
The Aero Club of Southern California has awarded the Howard Hughes Memorial Award to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The award will be accepted at a ceremony Wednesday, Sept. 6 at the California Club in Los Angeles.
observing galaxies seen in their earliest years, when the universe was just 350 million
After two days of extensive competition, Team Survey of Los Angeles was awarded $5,000 in prize money after successfully completing Level 1 of the Sample
teams from the United States, Canada and Estonia to compete for a total of $1.5 million
As NASA aims to solve the mysteries of our home planet and revolutionize air travel, it deploys a fleet of aircraft — from Gulfstreams to helicopters to the
s confidence to pass the written and practical tests and begin working on multi-million-dollar
Up, up, and … back down! On Jan. 27, scientists on an island in Indonesia launched a weather balloon carrying an ozonesonde – an instrument that measures
The site is also near Surabaya, the capital of eastern Java and home to nearly 10 million
Soon, the 6.6-million-pound crawler will go inside the VAB and slide under the Space
Some of the hottest spots in the Sun’s atmosphere appear in the telescope’s X-ray view.
nearest star: why the Sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona, reaches more than a million
Understanding what causes an accident often is like looking at an iceberg. We see the accident as the tip of the iceberg, but all the missteps, poor decisions
accident later was used in the opening credits of the television series “The Six Million
Dyson’s mission includes covering 2,944 orbits of the Earth and a journey of 78 million
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Michoud, the S-IB stage used eight H-1 engines to produce a combined thrust of 1.6 million
