Mark Kelly, the husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-AZ, said Tuesday that he will be retiring from NASA after 25 years of working with the space agency.
Three weeks after landing the Space Shuttle Endeavour at the end of its final voyage, Captain Mark Kelly said he’ll be retiring from NASA and the U.S. Navy to be with his wife, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, as she recovers from gunshot wounds suffered in January, Reuters reported.
Mark Kelly is going to retire from NASA and focus on writing a memoir with his wife, Gabrielle Giffords, who was nearly killed in a well publicized homicide attempt earlier this year.
Mark Kelly, the astronaut and husband of recovering Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, announced his retirement from the Navy and NASA Tuesday saying he plans to focus on his wife's recovery and work with her to pen a memoir.
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is about to leave the sun's territory to enter the inter-stellar space. NASA's twin spacecrafts Voyager 1 and Cassini reached edge of the solar system sooner than expected which means the boundary of solar system is smaller than what scientists had earlier speculated. Voyager 1's exit is expected to give astrophysicists new data accounts of life outside the solar system.
Summer Solstice is the day in a year when the Sun reaches its northernmost point in the planet Earth's sky. Find out more about summer and winter solstice.
TOP500 released the latest list of top ten most powerful, high-performance computers in the world at the 26th International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, on Monday.
As NASA's Cassini project relayed images back after snapping photos of several of Saturn's 60 known moons. The images revealed lakes and rivers filled with liquid methane on Titan, Rhea with an atmosphere full of oxygen, and an ocean-like surface under a thick hydrocarbon atmosphere. The signs of water molecules and oxygen has given much speculation about life form existing on Saturn moons.
NASA was able to complete its second-closest meeting with Saturn’s icy moon Helene with its Cassini orbiter on Monday according to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA's supercomputer Pleiades is one of the fastest in the world ranking seventh overall in a list of 500.
NASA space shuttle Atlantis is getting ready for its targeted July 8 launch to the International Space Station, which will close 30 years of the space shuttle program. The shuttle is expected to launch on July 8 at 11:26 am EDT.
A powerful burst of gamma rays first detected by NASA in late March this year may have been due to a Sun-sized star falling into the massive black hole and being ripped apart, which is believed to occur only once every 100 million years.
A canceled NASA Mars project is the base for today’s Bloom Box, a device that can take the chemical energy contained within molecules and convert it directly into electricity through a chemical reaction.
A hungry black hole far out in the cosmos, about 4 billion miles from Earth, got into an unusual feeding spree when a massive Sun-like star crossed its path, or to be accurate, passed by its gravitational sphere. The massive star was ripped apart, shredded into pieces as the giant black hole devoured it, unleashing some of the most powerful gamma ray flashes astronomers have ever seen. For the black hole,
An exciting discovery by ESA's Herschel Space Observatory reveals a young sun-like star shooting jets of water into space at a speed of 124,000 miles per hour.
Based on the data from its Spacecraft MESSENGER, NASA scientists have made some surprising discoveries about the planet Mercury. The spacecraft, first ever to orbit Mercury, is providing scientists important clues to the origin of the planet and its geological history to better understand its dynamic interior and exterior processes.
Flashing gamma rays observed in March from a supermassive black hole have been traced to a star falling into the massive black hole and being ripped apart, astronomers say.
Photos taken by the Deep Impact spacecraft have revealed an unusually hyperactive little comet, called Hartley 2, which spews inordinately high amounts of dry ice and carbon dioxide into space. For scientists, the new images from Deep Impact's comet flyby have come across as weird and strange. The comet behaves mysteriously --it spews out more water and dry ice than any other comet of its size, and it spins rapidly as it tumbles while most other comets rotate slowly in one direction.
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) are seeking help from citizens for sending humans on interstellar space missions by 2111
The concept of interstellar space travel may be a fantasy as of now, but scientists are trying to make it a reality, and they are looking for ideas.
A dazzling burst of gamma rays observed in March from a supermassive black hole could have been due to a star falling into the massive black hole and being ripped apart, according to a team of astronomers.
NASA scientists are getting important clues to the origin of the planet Mercury, as MESSENGER, the first spacecraft to orbit the planet, is providing ‘surprising’ data.
