The 7 Rocky Earth-Size TRAPPIST-1 Planets Have Remarkably Similar Densities
Precise measurements reveal that the exoplanets have remarkably similar densities, which provides clues about their composition. The red dwarf star PIST-1 is home to the…
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NASA’s Deep Space Network Welcomes a Super Powerful New Dish to the Family
The addition brings new capabilities to the network, which acts as an interplanetary switchboard, connecting us to missions at the Moon and far beyond. A…
Urban Greenery Contributes More to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Than Researchers Anticipated
A new study tracing the sources of carbon dioxide, the most significant human-generated greenhouse gas, reveals the unexpectedly large influence of vegetation in urban environments….
NASA’s DC-8 Flying Science Laboratory Returns to Flight
The flying science laboratory takes to the skies after major maintenance and will soon prepare for the Convective Processes Experiment – Aerosols & Wind campaign….
6 Things to Know About NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on Its Way to Mars
Ingenuity, a technology experiment, is preparing to attempt the first powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet. When NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars on…
Explore NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory With the New Virtual Tour – Museum, Mission Control, Building Space Robots, etc.
From visiting mission control to seeing where space robots are built, the interactive tour lets online users explore the historic space facility from anywhere in…
NASA’s Juno Mission Expands Into the Future – To Explore Jupiter and Its Rings and Moons
The spacecraft, which has been gathering data on the gas giant since July 2016, will become an explorer of the full Jovian system – Jupiter…
NASA’s Lucy Mission to Study Trojan Asteroids
Slated to launch in October 2021, NASA’s Lucy mission will be the first space mission to study the Trojan asteroids, leftover building blocks of the solar system’s outer…
NASA InSight’s “Mole” Ends Its Journey on Mars – But the Mission Is Far From Over
The heat probe hasn’t been able to gain the friction it needs to dig, but the mission has been granted an extension to carry on…
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover to Capture Sounds From the Red Planet
Audio gathered by the mission may not sound quite the same on Mars as it would to our ears on Earth. A new interactive online…
Stunning Martian Panorama Celebrates NASA’s Curiosity Rover’s 3,000th Day on Mars
As the rover has continued to ascend Mount Sharp, it’s found distinctive benchlike rock formations. It’s been 3,000 Martian days, or sols, since Curiosity touched…
Gravitational Wave Search Finds Tantalizing New Clue: Unexplained Fluctuations in Space-Time
An international team of scientists may be close to detecting faint ripples in space-time that fill the universe. Pairs of black holes billions of times…
7 Things to Know About the NASA Perseverance Rover About to Land on Mars
The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, which has started its approach to the Red Planet, will help answer the next logical question in Mars exploration. With…
SPHEREx: A New NASA Space Telescope Will Help Unravel the Mysteries of the Big Bang
The observatory will map the entire sky to study the rapid expansion of the universe after the big bang, the composition of young planetary systems,…
Von Kármán’s Vortices: Key Mathematical Insight About Swirling, Asymmetrical Flow Patterns
On a clear day, the towering peaks on Fogo, Santa Antão, and São Nicolau stand out amid the flatter islands of Cabo Verde (Cape Verde)….
NASA Skywatching Tips for January 2021
What are some skywatching highlights in January 2021? Mark Earth’s closest approach to the Sun for the year, called perihelion, at the start of the…
A Martian Roundtrip: NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Sample Tubes
Marvels of engineering, the rover’s sample tubes must be tough enough to safely bring Red Planet samples on the long journey back to Earth in…
The Extraordinary Robotic Sample-Gathering System of NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover
Two astronauts collected Moon rocks on Apollo 11. It will take three robotic systems working together to gather up the first Mars rock samples for…