Brilliant Geminid Meteor Shower To Light Up The Sky

If you're outside tonight ... you'll want to look up.

• Dec 13, 2012

Lawrence Tech Alumni Play Role In Mars Curiosity Rover

When Curiosity, the latest NASA Mars rover, takes core samples during its historic mission this fall, its robotic arm will rely on two sensors developed by two graduates of Lawrence Technological University.

• Sep 17, 2012

EMU Researcher Wins NASA Award To Study Martian Upper Atmosphere

While NASA's new Curiosity rover will spend at least two years on Mars, searching for clues that the planet may have been suitable for microbes, scientists like David Pawlowski of Eastern Michigan University are honing their research to unlock some of Mars' other mysteries.

• Sep 5, 2012

Neil Armstrong, First Man To Walk On The Moon, Dies At 82

Neil Armstrong, the Apollo 11 astronaut who became the first human being to set foot on another world, has died. He was 82.

• Aug 25, 2012

Bearings From Muskegon At Work On Mars -- For The Third Time

The Curiosity rover that landed on Mars Aug. 6 features the largest, most advanced scientific payload of any Mars mission yet -- and, as usual, Reali-Slim thin section bearings from Kaydon Bearings Division in Muskegon.

• Aug 12, 2012

Opinion: Sally Ride, A Role Model For The Ages

Looking around our nation, it's obvious that we need more heroines and heroes with Sally Ride's brave and courageous character. Her inspiration and legacy must live on to create the heroines – and heroes – of the future.

• Jul 24, 2012

U-M To Lead $152M NASA Satellite Project

The University of Michigan has been selected to lead a $152 million NASA satellite project aimed at improving hurricane and extreme weather prediction.

• Jun 19, 2012

NASA Picks UM-Led Satellite System For Weather Forecasting

NASA has selected an ocean wind study proposal led by the University of Michigan from among 19 submitted to the agency's Announcement of Opportunity for small spaceflight investigations of the Earth system. The proposed mission will make accurate measurements of ocean surface winds throughout the life cycle of tropical storms and hurricanes, which could help lead to better weather forecasting.

• Jun 18, 2012

Record-Breaking Wind From Stellar Mass Black Hole Discovered

The fastest wind ever discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole has been observed by a team of astronomers that includes a University of Michigan doctoral student.

• Feb 27, 2012

Michigan Companies Meet With NASA For New Business

More than 80 companies met with NASA officials Tuesday and Wednesday as the Detroit Regional Chamber hosted a NASA Partnerships Forum.

• Dec 7, 2011

Local Podiatrists Win NASA Award

Drs. Steven Glickman and Michael Schey are local podiatrists, experts in feet -- whether they were given at birth or mechanically designed.

• Nov 15, 2011

Advanced Photonix Gets Terahertz Development Contract

Advanced Photonix Inc. said Thursday that its Picometrix subsidiary has received a follow-on $600,000 Phase II government contract from NASA for further development of a computed tomography-terahertz scanner accessory designed for inspection of spacecraft and launch vehicle composite structures.

• Nov 10, 2011

Student-Built Satellite To Prepare NASA Instrument

When the M-Cubed satellite, built by University of Michigan students, goes into orbit, it will become the first CubeSat to test a NASA instrument for major space missions. It is scheduled to be launched on Oct. 28.

• Oct 25, 2011

UM: Extreme Space Weather At Mercury Blasts The Planet's Poles

The solar wind sandblasts the surface of planet Mercury at its poles, according to new data from a University of Michigan instrument on board NASA's Messenger spacecraft.

• Sep 28, 2011

NASA Tracks Satellite Falling To Earth

It's expected to break up in the atmosphere, but scientists can't say exactly where or when it will hit.

• Sep 20, 2011

NASA Accepting Applications For Aeronautics Scholarships

NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate is accepting scholarship applications from graduate and undergraduate students for the 2012 academic year. The application deadline is Jan. 15, 2012.

• Sep 4, 2011

Microbial Life On Mars: Could Salt Water Make It Possible?

How common are droplets of saltwater on Mars? Could microbial life survive and reproduce in them? A new million-dollar NASA project led by the University of Michigan aims to answer those questions.

• Aug 17, 2011

NASA's Final Space Shuttle Mission Launches Friday

NASA is closing out its 30-year space shuttle program with a launch scheduled for Friday, weather permitting.

• Jul 8, 2011

Detroit Doc's Astronaut Training Could Help Physicians On Earth

A surgeon at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit is working with a NASA-funded medical consortium on using ultrasound to diagnose medical problems on deep space missions when astronauts may be months or years from a hospital. And as so often happens, the techniques developed for space appear to have applications on Earth.

• Jun 23, 2011

UM: NASA Space Telescope Finds Voracious Black Holes In Early Universe

Using the deepest X-ray image ever taken, a University of Michigan astronomer and her colleagues have found the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early universe.

• Jun 15, 2011

Altair's PBS Professional Celebrates 20th Anniversary, Exhibits At Conference

• Jun 15, 2011

Catch A Glimpse Of 'Eta Aquarid' Meteor Shower

You can stand outside under this shower - without getting wet. Metro Detroiters are being treated to a meteor shower the next few mornings.

• May 5, 2011

Detroit Students To Witness Final Shuttle Launch

It'll be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for 28 Detroit school kids

• Apr 26, 2011

First Spacecraft To Orbit Mercury Carries UM Device

NASA's MESSENGER vehicle will begin to orbit the planet Mercury on March 17. An onboard device dubbed FIPS (Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer), designed and built at the University of Michigan, will take atmospheric measurements.

• Mar 14, 2011

GM's Robonaut 2 Arrives at International Space Station

Two hundred sixty or so miles above the Earth, Robonaut 2, the dexterous humanoid robot developed by General Motors and the NASA Johnson Space Center, has finally begun its first mission.

• Feb 27, 2011