NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity Keeps Finding Surprises
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity keeps providing surprises about the Red Planet, most recently with observations of possible “rock stripes.” The ground texture seen in…
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Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway will Extend Human Presence in Deep Space
As NASA sets its sights on returning to the Moon, and preparing for Mars, the agency is developing new opportunities in lunar orbit to provide…
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)…
Wargo Crater – A Lunar Tribute to Former NASA Scientist
NASA’s former chief exploration scientist, Michael Wargo, has been posthumously honored with the distinction of having a lunar crater named after him. Wargo Crater is…
A Look Back at America’s First Satellite, Explorer 1
The year 1958 held much promise for the United States space program. Both the US and the Soviet Union were preparing to orbit a satellite…
Get Ready for the ‘Super Blue Blood Moon’ Coming January 31
If you live in the western part of North America, Alaska, and the Hawaiian islands, you might set your alarm early the morning of Wednesday,…
NASA and NOAA Show Long-Term Global Warming Trend Continues
A new analysis by NASA shows that Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2017 ranked as the second warmest since 1880. Continuing the planet’s long-term warming…
Scientists Discuss a New Power Source for Future Space Exploration
NASA and its partners will host a news conference at noon EST (9 a.m. PST) Thursday, January 18, at the National Atomic Testing Museum in…
Two New NASA Missions Team Up To Explore Earth’s Ionosphere
Like Earth, space has weather. Except instead of swirling winds and downpours of precipitation, space weather is defined by shifting electric and magnetic fields and…
NASA Image of an Iceberg from Pine Island Glacier
In September 2017, a new iceberg calved from Pine Island Glacier—one of the main outlets where the West Antarctic Ice Sheet flows into the ocean….
NASA’s 2018 ‘To Do’ list
NASA’s 2018 To Do List This short video shows NASA’s 2018 ‘To Do’ list. The work we do, which will continue in 2018, helps the…
Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor Measures Solar Energy Input to Earth
We live on a solar-powered planet. As we wake up in the morning, the Sun peeks over the horizon to shed light on us, blanket…
NASA Heliophysics Research Details Substorm Activity Around Earth
Researchers have been studying the near-Earth environment for the better part of a century, but many mysteries — like where the energetic particles that pervade…
NASA Completes Review of Exploration Mission-1
NASA scientists are providing an update on the first integrated launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft after completing a comprehensive…
NASA Wants Your Ideas on What to Name New Horizons’ Next Flyby Target
NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt is looking for your ideas on what to informally name its next flyby destination, a…
Astronomers Investigate Invisible Magnetic Bubbles in Our Solar System
Planetary missions including Galileo, Cassini and Juno, and a number of spacecraft that orbit Earth, provide observations to create a comprehensive understanding of how planets…
NASA’s 2020 Mars Rover Will Have 23 Cameras
NASA’s 2020 Mars Rover will have 23 cameras to create sweeping panoramas, reveal obstacles, study the atmosphere, and assist science instruments. When NASA’s Mars Pathfinder…
Initial SAGE III Atmospheric Data Released for Public Use
The initial atmospheric data from the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III), a NASA instrument that launched to the International Space Station earlier…