Opportunity Braves Martian Dust Devil

NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has spotted and photographed its first Dust Devil. The grainy black and white image was snapped by the rover’s camera on July 15, one day after a Martian breeze cleared Opportunity’s solar arrays of dust, producing a...

NASA’s future hinges on House as well as Senate, White House strategies

The House Science and Technology Committee meets Thursday to do what the Senate Commerce Science and Transportation Committee did on July 15, consider a NASA authorization bill that attempts to settle differences between the White House and Congress over the future of...

NASA Pushes Forward on Human Mission to an Asteroid

Image of asteroid Itokawa taken by Japan’s Hayabusa spacecraft in 2005. Credit: JAXA  NASA is holding next month an Exploration of Near Earth Objects Objectives Workshop, dubbed Explore NOW. The by-invitation only workshop has been sparked by U.S. President Obama’s...