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From Cassini for the Holidays: Backlit View of Saturn and Its Rings
December 18, 2012 — Just in time for the holidays, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn for more than eight years now, has delivered another glorious, backlit view of the planet Saturn and its ... > full story -
Shot Away from Its Companion, Giant Star Makes Waves: Spitzer Captures Infrared Portrait
December 18, 2012 — Like a ship plowing through still waters, the giant star Zeta Ophiuchi is speeding through space, making waves in the dust ahead. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured a dramatic, infrared ... > full story -
NASA's GRAIL Lunar Impact Site Named for Astronaut Sally Ride
December 17, 2012 — NASA has named the site where twin agency spacecraft impacted the moon Monday in honor of the late astronaut Sally K. Ride, who was America's first woman in space and a member of the probes' mission ... > full story -
NASA GRAIL Lunar Twins Begin Their Last Burn
December 17, 2012 — Ebb and Flow -- the two twin spacecraft of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission -- have begun their final rocket burns. They are scheduled to impact the moon at around 2:28 ... > full story -
Rocket Burn Sets Stage for Dynamic Moon Duos' Lunar Impact
December 16, 2012 — The lunar twins of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission have each completed a rocket burn that has sealed their fate. The burns modified the orbit of the formation-flying ... > full story -
Asteroid Toutatis Slowly Tumbles by Earth
December 16, 2012 — Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a series of radar data images of a three-mile-long (4.8-kilometer) asteroid ... > full story -
NASA Progressing Toward First Launch of Orion Spacecraft
December 13, 2012 — Recent engineering advances by NASA and its industry partners across the country show important progress toward Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), the next step to launching humans to deep space. The ... > full story -
NASA Probes Prepare for Mission-Ending Moon Impact
December 13, 2012 — Twin lunar-orbiting NASA spacecraft that have allowed scientists to learn more about the internal structure and composition of the moon are being prepared for their controlled descent and impact on a ... > full story -
Mars Rover Curiosity Can Be Positioned With Eclipses
December 13, 2012 — Observations from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity when Mars' moon Phobos crosses in front of the sun, like in September, help us to understand exactly where the rover is on the red planet. Researchers in ... > full story -
Mariner 2's Encounter With Venus: NASA Celebrates 50 Years of Planetary Exploration
December 12, 2012 — Fifty years ago on a mid-December day, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft sailed close to the shrouded planet Venus, marking the first time any spacecraft had ever successfully made a close-up study of ... > full story
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