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NASA Launches Second Small Climate Satellite to Study Earth’s Poles
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The six-wheeled geologist found a fascinating rock that has some indications it may have hosted microbial life billions of years ago, but further research is needed. .
July 25, 2024
Managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory through launch, Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument also revealed jets of gas flowing into space from the twin stars. .
July 24, 2024
Researchers used more than 120 years of data to decipher how melting ice, dwindling groundwater, and rising seas are nudging the planet’s spin axis and lengthening days. .
July 19, 2024
Among several recent findings, the rover has found rocks made of pure sulfur — a first on the Red Planet. .
July 18, 2024
Artificial intelligence is helping scientists to identify minerals within rocks studied by the Perseverance rover. .
July 16, 2024
Lyrics for Missy Elliot’s song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” were transmitted from the DSN’s Goldstone complex to Venus, about 158 million miles (254 million kilometers) away. .
July 15, 2024
The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone planetary radar had a busy few days observing asteroids 2024 MK and 2011 UL21 as they safely passed Earth. .
July 3, 2024
Roads and sidewalks in some areas get so hot that skin contact could result in second-degree burns. .
July 2, 2024
The fifth Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise focused on an asteroid impact scenario designed by NASA JPL’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. .
NASA’s near-Earth-object-hunting mission NEOWISE is nearing its conclusion. But its work will carry on with NASA’s next-generation infrared mission: NEO Surveyor. .
July 1, 2024
Combining images from orbit with images from the surface, a JPL-developed tool allows researchers to zoom in to see individual boulders and zoom out to see all of Mars. .
June 27, 2024
The 23-year-old orbiter is taking images that offer horizon-wide views of the Red Planet similar to what astronauts aboard the International Space Station see over Earth. .
