A saucer-shaped test vehicle

May 16, 2014

NASA's Saucer-Shaped Craft Preps for Flight Test

NASA's LDSD project, a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle, has completed final assembly at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii.

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Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot

May 15, 2014

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is Smaller Than Ever Measured

Images taken decades apart by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show that Jupiter's colossal storm is shrinking.

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Hole produced by the rover's drill

May 15, 2014

NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Wrapping Up Waypoint Work

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover will depart the science waypoint where it drilled into a rock last week.

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Components of NASA's International Space Station-RapidScat instrument

May 15, 2014

NASA's Newest Wind Watcher Arrives at Launch Site

A new Earth-observing mission that will measure ocean winds from the International Space Station has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to begin preparations for launch.

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Sequence of images shows comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

May 15, 2014

Rosetta's Target Comet is Becoming Active

The target of ESA's Rosetta mission has started to reveal its true personality as a comet, its dusty veil clearly developing over the past six weeks.

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NASA workers at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

May 15, 2014

NASA Briefing for Supersonic Saucer-Shaped Vehicle

A mission overview briefing about NASA's upcoming flight test of the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) experiment will be provided to reporters attending a media day on Monday, June 2, at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) on Kauai, Hawaii.

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Thwaites Glacier. Image credit: NASA

May 12, 2014

West Antarctic Glacier Loss Appears Unstoppable

A new NASA study finds that a section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in a state of irreversible decline, with nothing to stop it from melting into the sea.

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Although the Amundsen Bay region is only a fraction of the whole West Antarctic Ice Sheet

May 12, 2014

The 'Unstable' West Antarctic Ice Sheet: A Primer

The new finding that the eventual loss of a major section of West Antarctica's ice sheet "appears unstoppable" was not completely unexpected by scientists who study this area.

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Antarctica. Image credit: NASA

May 9, 2014

NASA Hosts Media Telecon on West Antarctic Ice Sheet Findings

NASA will host a media teleconference Monday, May 12, to discuss the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and its potential contribution to future sea level rise.

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GPS

May 8, 2014

NASA Uses GPS to Find Sierra Water Weight

For the first time, NASA scientists have used GPS to find the total weight of winter snowpack and soil moisture in California's Sierra Nevada.

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