Follow the Water: Where Future Astronauts Should Land on Mars
A new NASA paper provides the most detailed map to date of near-surface water ice on the Red Planet. So you want to build a…
A new NASA paper provides the most detailed map to date of near-surface water ice on the Red Planet. So you want to build a…
NASA and three international partners have signed a statement of intent to advance a possible robotic Mars ice mapping mission, which could help identify abundant,…
In January 2020, the sky over Sweden delivered an early valentine to people on the ground in the form of a heart-shaped hole in the…
This week’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features an impressive portrait of M1-63, a beautifully captured example of a bipolar planetary nebula…
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this photograph of numerous gold prospecting pits in eastern Peru. The pits—usually hidden from an astronaut’s…
NASA is remembering Millie Hughes-Fulford, the first woman to fly as a NASA payload specialist, who died Thursday. Hughes-Fulford was selected as a payload specialist…
NASA asked university students around the country to help solve the pesky problem of lunar dust as the agency plans for sustainable human exploration of…
Scientists are using radar data to decipher where and how well landscapes recover in the years after major fires. For the past few decades, scientists…
Using data from facilities including NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), scientists have studied 20 instances and counting of regular…
Trees connect us scientifically, environmentally, and culturally. We all know that trees are vital to our planet’s health. As trees grow, they absorb carbon from…
NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas, approximately $93.3 million to deliver a suite of 10 science investigations and technology demonstrations to the…
Even as the Perseverance rover approaches Mars, technology on board is paying off on Earth. A laser-light sensor that can identify bacteria in a wound…
What are some skywatching highlights in February 2021? Find Mars all month after sunset, especially on the night of NASA’s planned rover landing, February 18….
NASA’s newest rover has an autopilot called Terrain-Relative Navigation. The view of the Sea of Tranquility rising up to meet Neil Armstrong during the first…
Now just a year and a half from launch, the mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid will soon begin assembling and testing the spacecraft. NASA’s…
Apollo 14 was the eighth crewed Apollo mission and the third to land on the Moon. On January 31, 1971, Apollo 14 launched from Kennedy…
NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover concluded their spacewalk at 1:16 p.m. EST, after 5 hours and 20 minutes. In the second spacewalk of the year,…
The Martian moon Phobos orbits through a stream of charged atoms and molecules that flow off the Red Planet’s atmosphere, new research shows. Many of…