NASA Selects Mission to Study Causes of Giant Solar Particle Storms
NASA has selected a new mission to study how the Sun generates and releases giant space weather storms – known…
3D Printing, Biology Research Make the Journey Back to Earth aboard SpaceX’s Dragon
On March 9, 2020, a Dragon cargo spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station carrying dozens of scientific experiments as…
NASA Selects Proposals to Study Volatile Stars, Galaxies, Cosmic Collisions
NASA has selected proposals for four missions that would study cosmic explosions and the debris they leave behind, as well…
Tracking Methane Sources and Movement Around the Globe
NASA’s new three-dimensional portrait of methane, the world’s second-largest contributor to greenhouse warming, shows it arising from a diversity of…
Sony and Peter Andre Team Up to Reveal the Nation’s Musical Guilty Pleasures
Research commissioned by Sony to celebrate its new WF-1000XM3 noise cancelling headphones uncovers the nation’s Top 20 ‘guilty pleasure’ songs,…
Klotho and Lina
Appearing as strings of orange dots, the brightest sets of dots belong to asteroids Klotho and Lina. Both orbit out…
Solar Energy Tracker Powers Down After 17 Years
After nearly two decades, the Sun has set for NASA’s Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE), a mission that continued…
Gullies on Mars
Gullies on Mars form during the winter, fluidized by carbon dioxide frost, and scientists monitor sites on the planet for…
NASA Selects New Instrument to Continue Key Climate Record
NASA has selected a new space-based instrument as an innovative and cost-effective approach to maintaining the 40-year data record of…
Bennu in Unprecedented Detail
This global map of asteroid Bennu’s surface is a mosaic of images collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft between Mar. 7…
New NASA Radar Looks to Monitor Volcanoes and Earthquakes from Space
Instead of looking up to the sky for bright bursts of fiery color, a research team spent Fourth of July…
What is Fluid Lensing?
Mapping the Closest Frontier, Our Oceans A coral reef in American Samoa, one of the locations where researchers from the…
Thousands Apply to Join NASA’s Artemis Generation, #BeAnAstronaut
More than 12,000 people have applied to join NASA’s next class of astronauts, demonstrating strong national interest to take part…
Viewing Our Galactic Center
The central region of our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains an exotic collection of objects, including a supermassive black hole…
Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret
Eight and a half years into its grand tour of the solar system, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft was ready for…