NASA Skywatching Highlights for March 2022: Don’t Miss Easy To Find Exoplanets
What’s Up for March? Meet the morning planets, the nearest star cluster, and some do-it-yourself exoplanets. Saturn joins Venus and Mars this month in the…
What’s Up for March? Meet the morning planets, the nearest star cluster, and some do-it-yourself exoplanets. Saturn joins Venus and Mars this month in the…
A design quirk in the X-ray observatory has made it possible for astronomers to use previously unwanted light to study even more cosmic objects than…
Scientists analyzed coastal water quality in the months following a major Southern California wildfire. Their results were eye-opening. The November 2018 Woolsey Fire in Southern…
When the Perseverance rover finishes a drive and is exploring a new location, you may see it create a round, shallow hole in a nearby…
Perseverance capped its first year on Mars by speeding back around Séítah toward what is expected to be the final sampling location in its crater…
The selected concepts include three from JPL. The projects are still in the early stages of development and are not considered official NASA missions. An…
A supermassive black hole 9 billion light-years away appears to have a companion black hole orbiting around it. As the orbit shrinks, the pair gets…
NASA, NOAA, USGS, and other U.S. government agencies project that the rise in ocean height in the next 30 years could equal the total rise…
The Ingenuity team is beginning preparations for Flight 20! Flight 19 was successfully completed on February 7, 2022, at 20:21 PST (Sol 345 of the…
What does Percy do all day? A Martian day- or Sol- is 24 hours and 37 minutes long, and while every Sol is different, each…
Innovative mini instruments on the International Space Station have produced their first maps of global humidity and ocean winds. After being installed on the International…
Five years ago, astronomers revealed a spectacular collection of other worlds: the TRAPPIST-1 system. Newspapers around the world printed the discovery on their front pages:…
The first set of middle-schoolers in the agency’s “You’ve Got Perseverance!” campaign was honored with a message from the Red Planet and a chat with…
The rover has racked up a series of accomplishments, including new distance records, as it reaches the end of the first of several planned science…
Using carefully selected terrestrial rocks, engineers try to figure out how to work with crumbly rocks like the one the rover encountered on its first…
Three abrasions and four sample cores later, the rover has finally departed the Séítah area and is embarking on the return leg of the crater…
The planet’s auroras are known to produce low-energy X-ray light. A new study finally reveals higher-frequency X-rays and explains why they eluded another mission 30…
America’s favorite red monster may not be interested in rocks, but Perseverance can’t wait to keep exploring the rocks on Mars! How does the rover…