Believed to be a remnant of powerful ancient debris flows, Gediz Vallis Ridge is a destination long sought by the rover’s science team. Three billion…
Harmful algae can endanger public health and coastal ecosystems and economies. Advances in satellite imaging are providing new ways to look at our living ocean….
Riding with the Perseverance rover, the instrument has proved to be a viable technology for astronauts on Mars to produce oxygen for fuel and breathing….
Bound for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche mission is targeting October 5 to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida….
Sturdy legs are needed to absorb the impact of the heaviest spacecraft to ever touch down on the Red Planet. NASA’s Perseverance rover continues to…
Data from the PREFIRE mission will inform climate and ice models, providing better projections of how a warming world will affect sea ice loss, ice…
NASA is working with its international partners to study the ancient Earth as it relates to Mars. In June 2023, NASA’s Mars Exploration Program leaders…
What are some skywatching highlights in September 2023? Venus returns to the early morning skies as a bright beacon in the east. The full moon…
NASA is testing technologies in space and on the ground that could increase bandwidth to transmit more complex science data and even stream video from…
“Behind the Spacecraft” is a series of short videos that offer glimpses of the people who’ve helped make this upcoming journey to a metal-rich asteroid…
New research suggests the same conditions that created the cracks could have been favorable to the emergence of microscopic life. Scientists aren’t entirely sure how…
NASA’s Cold Atom Lab is getting its second major upgrade and will be using it to explore the quantum realm. A major hardware update for…
The addition of a high-gain antenna will enable the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft – set to launch in October 2024 – to communicate with mission…
The spacecraft’s Lunar Thermal Mapper science instrument will work with an imaging spectrometer to help researchers understand the nature of water on the Moon’s surface….
The helicopter performed a short hop to help the team better understand why its previous flight was interrupted. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter successfully completed its…
In a case study, scientists detected the costly infection in cabernet sauvignon grapevines before they showed symptoms visible to the human eye. Withering molds, root-rotting…
Data sent by the spacecraft before it retired last December has provided new details about how fast the planet rotates and how much it wobbles….
The telescope took a picture of a glittering field of stars, indicating that it is doing well after a million-mile journey from Earth. The two…