Lying just above the sun’s surface is an enigmatic region of the solar atmosphere called the interface region. A relatively thin region, just 3,000 to 6,000 miles thick, it pulses with movement: Zones ...

The university’s new hub will enable on-the-ground teams to control and communicate with spacecraft in upcoming missions. CMU's Moonshot Mission Control will bring equipment to the crews of Iris, ...

Carnegie Mellon University students built Iris, a tiny lunar rover. When the spacecraft carrying it to the moon malfunctioned, they turned their vacation house into mission control. By Kenneth Chang A ...

Robert Carvalho began his career at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., interning as a computer engineer in 1993. Since then, he has worked on a variety of projects, including helping ...

The Iris nano rover built by Carnegie Mellon University students. Generally when a rocket explodes on pad, fails to achieve escape velocity, or otherwise does not complete its mission, it’s a failure.

The time draws near. NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission, a mission to observe a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere that powers its dynamic million-degree outer atmosphere and ...