Deep Space Atomic Clock Activated by NASA
An atomic clock that could pave the way for autonomous deep space travel was successfully activated last week and is ready to begin its year-long…
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Carbon Monoxide From Brazil Fires Mapped by NASA Satellite
New data from NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument, aboard the Aqua satellite, shows the movement high in the atmosphere of carbon monoxide associated with…
NASA Mission to Jupiter’s Icy Moon Confirmed
An icy ocean world in our solar system that could tell us more about the potential for life on other worlds is coming into focus…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Gets a Rare Look at the Surface of a Rocky Exoplanet
A new study using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a rocky planet orbiting a…
Perfectly Sideways Galaxy Spied by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope
This image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope might look like a lightsaber floating in space, but it’s actually an entire galaxy viewed on its side….
View Passing Comet 46P/Wirtanen This Sunday
On Sunday, December 16, the comet known as 46P/Wirtanen will make one of the 10 closest comet flybys of Earth in 70 years, and you…
JPL to Host Live Chat on Successful Dawn Mission to Asteroid Belt
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will host a live-streamed Science Chat at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, September 7, during which experts will talk about the…
NASA to Launch Mars Parachute Test
NASA will test a parachute for possible future missions to Mars from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Tuesday, March 27. Live coverage of…
NASA Researchers Test Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC)
In deep space, accurate timekeeping is vital to navigation, but not all spacecraft have precise timepieces aboard. For 20 years, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)…
JPL Develops A.I. Piloted Drones for Race Against Human Pilot
JPL engineers put together a drone race to find which is faster – a drone operated by a human or one operated by artificial intelligence….
NASA Study Shows Wind and Warm Water Accelerating Glacier Melt
New research from NASA reveals the Antarctic glaciers that accelerated the fastest between 2008 and 2014 and finds that the most likely cause of their…
Cassini Spacecraft Images Provide “Inside-Out” View of Saturn’s Rings
This newly released movie sequence of images from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft offers a unique perspective on Saturn’s ring system. Cassini captured the images from within…
NASA’s InSight Mission to Investigate Interior of Red Planet
NASA’s InSight Mission will be the first mission to focus on the deep interior of Mars, boosting our understanding of how all rocky planets formed….
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Views Seasonal Flows in Valles Marineris
NASA’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment captured this new image of seasonal flows on the surface of Mars. Recurring slope lineae are seasonal flows on…
New NASA Research Shows Titan Lakes Fizz With Nitrogen
A newly published study details how the hydrocarbon lakes and seas of Saturn’s moon Titan might occasionally erupt with dramatic patches of bubbles. For the…
NASA Scientists Will Create the Coolest Spot in the Universe
NASA scientists plan to create the coolest spot in the universe at the International Space Station by freezing gas atoms to a mere billionth of…
Astronomers Show Similar-Looking Ridges on Mars Have Diverse Origins
A new study on polygon-forming ridges on Mars examines the Medusae Fossae region straddling the planet’s equator and similar-looking networks in other regions of the…
Juno Mission Prepares for Jupiter Flyby
NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make its third science flyby of Jupiter on Sunday, December 11, at 9:04 a.m. PST. At the time of closest approach…