Marking its 15th anniversary since launch, one of the oldest spacecraft at the Red Planet has provided glimpses of dust devils, avalanches, and more. Since…
Data from NASA’s recent Dawn mission answers two long-unresolved questions: Is there liquid inside Ceres, and how long ago was the dwarf planet geologically active?…
The spacecraft may have found where the colorless gas has been hiding on the solar system’s biggest planetary inhabitant. New results from NASA’s Juno mission…
The NASA rover touched down eight years ago, on August 5, 2012, and will soon be joined by a second rover, Perseverance. NASA’s Curiosity Mars…
The new projects look at food- and water-supply stability and how changes in human activity are affecting the environment. The COVID-19 pandemic has touched most…
In a Q&A, spacesuit designer Amy Ross explains how five samples, including a piece of helmet visor, will be tested aboard the rover, which was…
The agency’s Mars 2020 mission is on its way. It will land at Jezero Crater in about seven months, on February 18, 2021. NASA’s Mars…
Today’s final critical milestone — acquisition of signal — has been achieved. In essence, Perseverance has phoned home to let NASA know it’s officially on…
With a targeted launch date of July 30, 2020, the next robotic scientist NASA is sending to the Red Planet has big ambitions. Scheduled to…
Wild weather sweeping in from the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico is bringing flooding rains, high winds, and dangerous storm surges to Hawaii and…
Infrared images from Juno provide the first glimpse of Ganymede’s icy north pole. On its way inbound for a Dec. 26, 2019, flyby of Jupiter,…
Carried by a balloon the size of a football stadium, ASTHROS will use a cutting-edge telescope to observe wavelengths of light that aren’t visible from…
The agency’s Mars 2020 mission has one more big prelaunch review — the Launch Readiness Review, on July 27. NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission…
The telltale sign that the black hole was feeding vanished, perhaps when a star interrupted the feast. The event could lend new insight into these…
The first helicopter attempting to fly on another planet is a marvel of engineering. Get up to speed with these key facts about its plans….
The Sentinel-6/Jason-CS satellite mission will add to a long-term sea level dataset that’s become the gold standard for climate studies from orbit. Over the course…
The winners for the JPL-led “Honey, I Shrunk the NASA Payload” challenge have been announced, and the miniature robotic designs could help the agency explore…
Used for communicating with distant spacecraft, a massive radio antenna is being retrofitted to prepare it for a busy future of solar system exploration. The…