International Trio of Mars Orbiters Shows Small Dust Storms Help Dry Out the Red Planet
By combining observations from three international spacecraft at Mars, scientists were able to show that regional dust storms play a huge role in drying out…
By combining observations from three international spacecraft at Mars, scientists were able to show that regional dust storms play a huge role in drying out…
This Picture of the Week shows an open cluster known as NGC 2164, which was first discovered in 1826 by a Scottish astronomer named James…
Known as ultraluminous X-ray sources, the emitters are easy to spot when viewed straight on, but they might be hidden from view if they point…
Night Turns to Day The International Space Station was orbiting 263 miles (423 kilometers) above the southeast coast of Brazil on the Atlantic Ocean into…
This month we’ll get to see a Full Moon on August 22, 2021, known by some early Native American tribes of the northeastern United States,…
Want to try living on Mars, but not sure you want to experience the nine-month flight time to get there? NASA is looking for applicants…
The island’s vast ice sheet underwent multiple bouts of widespread melting this summer, exacerbated in August 2021 by rain. The Greenland Ice Sheet underwent two…
Two spacecraft made historic flybys of Venus this month, and both sent back sci-fi-type views of the mysterious, cloud-shrouded planet. The Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo…
Several destructive fires have charred landscapes in northern California, and their emissions are adding up. The worst of California’s fire season typically comes in autumn,…
As NASA prepares to go to the Moon with the Artemis program, in-situ resource utilization is paramount, and there is no hotter commodity than water….
The strengthening storm could reach southern New England with hurricane or near-hurricane strength winds. Heavy winds, rain, and storm surge threaten the U.S. Northeast this…
Comet Atlas May Have Been a Blast From the Past When our very early ancestors were colonizing the Nile River Valley, 5,000 years ago at…
Every day – up to thirty times a day, in fact – one of Mark Mason’s employees at Nature’s Reward Farms in Monterey County, California…
NASA has funded a five-year outreach program in association with the Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH), a solar mission led by Southwest…
This ambitious program will study half a million galaxies in a field the size of three full Moons. Peering deeply into a huge patch of…
A new video rings in the rover’s ninth year on Mars, letting viewers tour Curiosity’s location on a Martian mountain. Images of knobbly rocks and…
After glimpsing faint but widespread super-heated material in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, a NASA sounding rocket has gone back for more. This time, it was…
The 23rd SpaceX cargo resupply services mission carrying scientific research and technology demonstrations to the International Space Station is targeted to launch in late August from NASA’s…