How Light Looks Different on the Moon and What NASA Is Doing About It
A team at NASA’s Ames Research Center has created a simulated lunar environment to study lighting conditions experienced at the unexplored poles of the Moon….
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NEOWISE Reveals Size Distributions of Comet Populations
Using NEOWISE data from the four-band and three-band cryogenic phases of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, astronomers reveal that large, distant comets are more…
Safety Tips for Viewing the August Solar Eclipse
NASA has released information and safety tips for viewing the upcoming August 21st solar eclipse. More than 300 million people in the United States potentially…
New Horizons Captures New Data on Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69
NASA’s New Horizons team captured an event that’s known as an occultation on an elusive target, an ancient Kuiper Belt object known as 2014 MU69….
NASA Astronomers Predict Solar Minimum is Coming
Our sun is heading toward solar minimum. Sunspot counts were relatively high in 2014, and now they are sliding toward a low point expected in…
NASA NICER Mission Set to Study Mysterious Neutron Stars
A new NASA mission is headed for the International Space Station next month to observe one of the strangest observable objects in the universe. The…
NASA Reviews 12 Proposals for Future Unmanned Solar System Exploration
NASA is reviewing 12 proposals for a future unmanned mission that will launch in the mid 2020s. The proposed missions were submitted as part of…
NASA Issues a Challenge – High Performance Fast Computing Challenge
Improve the speed of computational fluid dynamics algorithms in NASA’s FUN3D software. A prize purse of up to $55,000 in overall cash prizes is available….
NASA Putting Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope on Pause, Need to Review Project
Over the next several months, NASA will review the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) project to help ensure it would provide compelling scientific capability…
Cassini Mission & Hubble Telescope Provide New Insights into ‘Ocean Worlds’
NASA’s Cassini Mission and Hubble Space Telescope are providing new details about ocean-bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn, increasing the scientific interest of these and…
Near-Earth Asteroid 2014 JO25 Set to Fly Past Earth on April 19
Discovered nearly three years ago, the relatively large near-Earth asteroid 2014 JO25 is set to fly safely past Earth on April 19 at a distance…
NASA Launches New Video, Audio and Imagery Library for the Public
NASA has launched a new website that will allow the public search and download out-of-this-world images, videos and audio files by keyword and metadata searches…
K-Cor Gives Scientists an Early Warning of Incoming Space Weather
Scientists from NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have shown that data from a ground-based instrument called K-Cor can give scientists early warning…
NASA Study Shows Change in Water ‘Fingerprint’ of Comet Lovejoy
A new study suggests that a trip past the sun may have selectively altered the production of one form of water in a comet. Astronomers…
NASA’s Juno Mission to Continue Its Exciting Journey of Discovery
NASA has decided to forego a previously-planned engine firing and allow Juno to remain in its current orbit for the remainder of the mission. This…
NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate Selects Proposals for Space Research Institutes
NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate has selected proposals for the creation of two multi-disciplinary, university-led research institutes that will focus on the development of technologies…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Makes Its Fourth Flyby Over Jupiter’s Mysterious Cloud Tops
Today NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make its fourth flyby over Jupiter’s mysterious cloud tops. At the time of closest approach (called perijove), Juno will be…
New HiRISE Image of Martian Dunes in Northern Summer
This newly released HiRISE image shows dunes on the surface of Mars during the Martian northern summer. This dune field formed near the base of…