Vulnerable to Climate Change: Huge Antarctic Glacier Melting From the Bottom Up
The shape of the ground beneath Denman Glacier, which is melting from the bottom up, makes it particularly vulnerable to the intrusion of seawater. Denman…
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NASA WFIRST Will Detect Exoplanets Using Warped Space-Time
The NASA mission will identify planets with large orbits, similar to our solar system’s far-flung giants, Uranus and Neptune. NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope…
NASA Scientists Find Secret in Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data About the Ice Giant Uranus
The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, perhaps siphoned away by the planet’s magnetic field. Eight and…
NASA Perseverance Rover’s New Cargo: 10.9 Million Names – Next Stop: Mars
As part of NASA’s ‘Send Your Name to Mars’ campaign, they’ve been stenciled onto three microchips along with essays from NASA’s ‘Name the Rover’ contest….
Climactic Risk of Global Sea Level Rise as Antarctica’s Denman Glacier Has Retreated Almost 3 Miles
UCI, NASA scientists assess ice sheet with potential to raise global sea levels nearly 5 feet. East Antarctica’s Denman Glacier has retreated 5 kilometers, nearly…
Stunning Martian Selfie Before NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Completes Record Climb
Along with capturing an image before its steepest ascent ever, the robotic explorer filmed its “selfie stick,” or robotic arm, in action. NASA’s Curiosity Mars…
50 New Ways NASA Innovations Benefit Life on Earth
From lasers to rovers, the technology NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory develops for space often has unanticipated uses much closer to home. As NASA pushes the…
NASA Satellites Track How Quickly the Poles Are Melting – Greenland Lost 600 Billion Tons of Ice in 2 Months
GRACE, GRACE-FO Satellite Data Track Ice Loss at the Poles Greenland and Antarctica are melting — but how quickly and which areas are most affected?…
Mars Perseverance Rover Sample Handling System Integrated by NASA JPL
The sample handling system will be collecting and storing Martian rock and soil. Its installation marks another milestone in the march toward the July launch…
6.4 Trillion Tons of Ice Lost: Antarctica, Greenland Melting Six Times Faster Than in the 1990s
The two regions have lost 6.4 trillion tons of ice in three decades; unabated, this rate of melting could cause flooding that affects hundreds of…
How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? NASA Answers
Today is March 14, as in 3.14, which is why it is Pi Day. It is a good time to look at this question from…
NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover Named – Virginia Middle School Student Wins Naming Contest
NASA chose seventh-grader from Virginia as winner of the agency’s “Name the Rover” essay contest. Alexander Mather’s entry for “Perseverance” was voted tops among 28,000…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Stunning 1.8-Billion-Pixel Panorama
To go along with the stunning 1.8-billion-pixel image, a new video offers a sweeping view of the Red Planet. NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured its…
WFIRST Universe-Studying, Planet-Finding Mission Greenlit by NASA
NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) project has passed a critical programmatic and technical milestone, giving the mission the official green light to begin…
DARPA Underground Autonomous Robot Navigation Challenge
Whether robots are exploring caves on other planets or disaster areas here on Earth, autonomy enables them to navigate extreme environments without human guidance or…
Mars InSight Lander Yields a Year of Surprising Discoveries Above and Below the Surface of the Red Planet
A batch of new papers summarizes the lander’s findings. A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to the first year of NASA’s…
NASA Is Designing a Venus Rover Concept and Wants Your Help
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, under a grant from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, is running a public challenge to develop an…
Mars InSight Lander’s Heat Probe Has Been Stuck for a Year – But NASA Has a New Plan
Engineers have a plan for pushing down on the heat probe, which has been stuck at the Martian surface for a year. After nearly a…