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May 24, 2013 Century-Old Science Helps Confirm Global WarmingData from a British high-seas scientific expedition in the 1870s have provided further confirmation of human-produced global warming over the past century. |
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May 23, 2013 Galaxies Fed by Funnels of FuelSupercomputers have helped reveal that galaxies bulk up in mass by feeding off cosmic swirly straws of gas. |
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May 23, 2013 NASA Administrator Visits JPL, Talks AsteroidsNASA Administrator Charles Bolden met with members of the asteroid initiative team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. |
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May 22, 2013 NASA Ships Sensors for Seafaring Satellite to FranceNASA's instruments for the next in a series of missions to chart sea level and improve weather, climate and ocean forecasts have shipped overseas for spacecraft integration. |
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May 22, 2013 Herschel Space Observatory Finds Galaxy Mega MergerA massive and rare merging of two galaxies has been spotted in images taken by the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA participation. |
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May 22, 2013 Forecast for Titan: Wild Weather Could be AheadTwo new models with implications for NASA's Cassini mission suggest the onset of spring in Titan's northern hemisphere could bring waves and hurricanes. |
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May 20, 2013 NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Drills Second Rock TargetNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a powdered sample from the interior of a rock called "Cumberland." |
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May 17, 2013 Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in RockNASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is driving to a new study area after a dramatic finish to 20 months on "Cape York" with examination of a rock intensely altered by water. |
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May 16, 2013 Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old RecordNASA's Mars rover Opportunity now holds the record for farthest driving by a NASA vehicle on a world away from Earth, passing a mark set by an Apollo astronaut-driven rover. |
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May 16, 2013 Galaxy's Ring of FireThis ring of fire "burns, burns, burns" with young stars. |
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May 16, 2013 NASA Helps Pinpoint Glaciers' Role in Sea Level RiseA new study of glaciers worldwide from two NASA satellites has helped resolve differences in estimates of how fast glaciers are disappearing and contributing to sea level rise. |
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May 15, 2013 Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Sail Past Earth Nine Times Larger Than Cruise ShipAsteroid 1998 QE2 will get no closer than about 3.6 million miles at time of closest approach on May 31 at 1:59 p.m. Pacific (4:59 p.m. Eastern). |
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May 15, 2013 NASA Probe Counts Space Rock Impacts on MarsScientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year. |
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May 15, 2013 Cassini Shapes First Global Topographic Map of TitanScientists have used data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft to map the highs and lows of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. |
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May 13, 2013 Satellites See Double Jeopardy for SoCal Fire SeasonNew insights into two factors that are creating a potentially volatile Southern California wildfire season come from an ongoing project using NASA and Indian satellite data. |
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May 9, 2013 NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target on MarsThe team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. |
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May 9, 2013 NASA Curiosity Rover Wins Prestigious AwardsTwo prominent aerospace industry organizations are recognizing the contributions of NASA, especially the achievements of the team that landed NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars in August, with coveted awards. |
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May 9, 2013 Sifting Through the Atmospheres of Far-off WorldsResearchers have begun taking infrared pictures of planets posing near their stars in family portraits. |
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May 7, 2013 Milky Way Black Hole Snacks on Hot GasThe supermassive black hole at the core of our Milky Way galaxy is gobbling up hot gas, according to a new study from the Herschel space observatory. |
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May 6, 2013 NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri DishAstronomers are using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to dissect the atmospheres of an exotic class of planets called hot Jupiters. |
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May 2, 2013 NASA Opens New Era in Measuring Western U.S. SnowpackA new NASA airborne mission is producing the most accurate measurements to date of how much water is in the snowpack of two mountain watersheds in California and Colorado. |
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May 2, 2013 'Tis the Season -- for Plasma Changes at SaturnNASA's Cassini mission helps reveal seasonal changes in the bubble of charged particles around Saturn, providing a clue to some long-standing mysteries. |
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May 1, 2013 Mars Rover Social Media, NASA/JPL Website Win AwardsNASA's Curiosity Mars rover social media campaign and the agency's Solar System Exploration website win Webby Awards, the leading honor for the best of the Internet. |
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May 1, 2013 Opportunity Exits Standby, Back at WorkNASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has exited a standby mode and is now executing a sequence of commands sent by the rover team. |
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April 29, 2013 Herschel Completes Its 'Cool' Journey in SpaceThe Herschel observatory, which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected. |
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April 29, 2013 NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on SaturnNASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. |
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April 25, 2013 Curiosity Wins National Air and Space Museum TrophyThe team in charge of landing NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, received the museum's highest group honor. |
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April 25, 2013 NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding with Saturn's RingsNASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings. |
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April 24, 2013 NASA Invites the Public to Fly Along with VoyagerNASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are on the verge of plunging into interstellar space -- the space between stars -- and two new Web tools let the public fly along. |
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April 23, 2013 Herschel Links Water Around Jupiter to Comet ImpactAstronomers trace water in Jupiter's intermediate atmospheric layer back to the famous Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact of 19 years ago. |
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April 23, 2013 Galaxy Goes Green in Burning Stellar FuelAstronomers have spotted the most efficient maker of stars yet, a galaxy undergoing a rare phase of evolution. |
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April 22, 2013 NASA's HyspIRI Sees the Forest for the Trees and MoreAs the world celebrates Earth Day 2013, a NASA airborne campaign is busy studying California's ecosystems in a whole new light in preparation for a future satellite mission. |
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April 18, 2013 Kepler Discovers its Smallest Habitable Zone PlanetsNASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone." |
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April 18, 2013 Three From JPL on Time Magazine 'Most Influential' ListOn a new list of the 100 most influential people on Earth, three work at the same California address, where they've led projects to study things that are not on Earth. |
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April 17, 2013 NASA Mars Orbiters Have New Project ManagersTwo NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars, both working long past their original prime missions, have new project managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. |
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April 17, 2013 Astronomers Discover Massive Star Factory in Early UniverseBusy-bee galaxy seen churning out stars when our universe was just a baby. |
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April 16, 2013 How to Target an AsteroidThe hunt is on for methods to aim a spacecraft at an asteroid. |
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April 16, 2013 NASA Hosts Media Briefing on Kepler Planetary DiscoveryNASA will host a news briefing at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT), Thursday, April 18, to announce new discoveries from the agency's Kepler mission. |
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April 15, 2013 Titan's Methane: Going, Going, Soon to Be Gone?NASA's Cassini mission tracks long-lived lakes in Titan's northern hemisphere and finds that the moon's methane may be disappearing. |
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April 15, 2013 NASA-Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key TestAn infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design test. |
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April 12, 2013 Where are the Best Windows Into Europa's Interior?A new look at data from NASA's Galileo mission yields pointers for where on Europa's surface the watery interior of this moon of Jupiter is best revealed. |
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April 12, 2013 Comet to Make Close Flyby of Red Planet in October 2014New observations of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) have allowed NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. to further refine the comet's orbit. |
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April 11, 2013 Ice Cloud Heralds Fall at Titan's South PoleNASA's Cassini finds a kind of cloud only previously seen at the moon's north pole. |
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April 11, 2013 NASA Mars Orbiter Images May Show 1971 Soviet LanderHardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971 might appear in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. |
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April 10, 2013 NASA Associate Administrator on Asteroid InitiativeThe following are statements from the associate administrators of three NASA directorates. |
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April 10, 2013 Blame it on the Rain (from Saturn's Rings)A study partially funded by NASA finds that charged-water "rain" from Saturn's rings falls across large swaths of the planet. |
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April 9, 2013 NASA, Mars Curiosity Win Awards for Social MediaNASA's official Twitter feed, @NASA, has won its second consecutive Shorty award for the best government use of social media. |
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April 9, 2013 NASA Selects 2013 Carl Sagan FellowsNASA has announced recipients of the 2013 Sagan Exoplanet Fellowships, a program designed to encourage new talent in exoplanet research. |
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April 8, 2013 Remaining Martian Atmosphere Still DynamicMars has lost much of its original atmosphere, but what's left remains quite active, recent findings from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity indicate. |
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April 4, 2013 Mapping the Chemistry Needed for Life at EuropaA new study led by a NASA researcher provides the first observations of the global distribution of hydrogen peroxide across the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. |
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April 4, 2013 Scientists to Io: Volcanoes are in the Wrong SpotUnexpected locations of volcanoes provide a clue that we don't fully understand Jupiter's moon Io, a fiery world observed by NASA's Voyager and Galileo spacecraft. |
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April 4, 2013 Gravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting EinsteinThe light of a red star is warped and magnified by its dead-star companion, as detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope. |
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April 3, 2013 NASA Flies Radar South on Wide-Ranging ExpeditionA versatile NASA airborne imaging radar system is showcasing its broad scientific prowess for studying our home planet during a month-long expedition over the Americas. |
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April 3, 2013 A Confetti-Like Collection of StarsStars sparkle in this lively new view of the Small Magellanic Cloud from NASA's Great Observatories. |
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April 3, 2013 Used Parachute on Mars Flaps in the WindPhotos from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show how the parachute that helped NASA's Curiosity rover land on Mars last summer has changed its shape on the ground. |
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April 2, 2013 NASA Team Investigates Complex Chemistry at TitanA laboratory experiment at JPL simulating the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan suggests another region in the atmosphere that could brew up prebiotic materials. |
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April 1, 2013 NASA Sends Unmanned Aircraft to Study Volcanic PlumeLike bees buzzing around a hive, three unmanned aircraft were sent by NASA into a Costa Rican volcano's plume last month to study its chemical environment. |
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March 28, 2013 Hunting Massive Stars with HerschelIn a new view of a vast star-forming cloud called W3, the Herschel space observatory tells the story of how massive stars are born. |
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March 26, 2013 Saturn is Like an Antiques Shop, Cassini SuggestsNASA's Cassini spacecraft analyzes the water ice and color distribution in the Saturn system, revealing gently worn, vintage goods. |
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March 26, 2013 Local High Schools Win in Robotic SmackdownHigh schools from Los Angeles, Atascadero, Goleta and Beverly Hills are top winners in the Los Angeles regional FIRST Robotics competition. |
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March 25, 2013 Curiosity Resumes Science InvestigationsNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has resumed science investigations after recovery from a computer glitch that prompted a switch to a redundant main computer on Feb. 28. |
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March 25, 2013 NASA Scientists Find Moon, Asteroids Share HistoryNASA and international researchers have discovered that Earth's moon has more in common than previously thought with large asteroids roaming our solar system. |
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March 22, 2013 JPL Scientists Reflect on World Water DayOn World Water Day (March 22), JPL scientists involved in water-related research reflect on the importance of freshwater. |
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March 21, 2013 Supercomputer Helps Planck Mission Expose Ancient LightHow do scientists extract ancient light from the sky? Like archeologists digging for fossils, they carefully sift through foreground material to reveal their prize. |
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March 21, 2013 Planck Mission Brings Universe Into Sharp FocusThe Planck space mission has released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe, revealing new information about its age, contents and origins. |
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March 20, 2013 Sun in the Way Will Affect Mars Missions in AprilThe positions of the planets next month will mean diminished communications between Earth and NASA's spacecraft at Mars. |
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March 20, 2013 NASA Voyager Status Update on Voyager 1 LocationThe consensus of the Voyager science team is that Voyager 1 has not yet reached interstellar space. |
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March 19, 2013 NASA News Telecon: Planck Cosmology Findings (Update)NASA will host a news teleconference at 8 a.m. PDT (11 a.m. EDT), Thursday, March 21, to discuss the first cosmology results from Planck. |
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March 19, 2013 Curiosity Rover Exits 'Safe Mode'NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has returned to active status and is on track to resume science investigations, following two days in a precautionary standby status, "safe mode." |
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March 19, 2013 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Sees GRAIL's Explosive FarewellNASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has imaged the final resting places on the moon of both of NASA's GRAIL spacecraft. |
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March 19, 2013 Herschel Discovers Some of the Youngest Stars Ever SeenAstronomers have found some of the youngest stars ever seen, thanks to the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributions. |
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March 18, 2013 Goldstone Radar Snags Images of Asteroid 2013 ETScientists capture radar images of asteroid 2013 ET. |
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March 18, 2013 Curiosity Mars Rover Sees Trend in Water PresenceNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has seen evidence of water-bearing minerals in rocks near where it had already found clay minerals inside a drilled rock. |
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March 18, 2013 New Curiosity 'Safe Mode' Status Expected to be BriefEngineers have quickly diagnosed a software issue that prompted NASA's Mars rover Curiosity to put itself into a precautionary standby status over the weekend. |
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March 15, 2013 Moon, Mars Science Conference Events to be StreamedScience conference briefings to be held next week in Houston will be streamed live online. |
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March 15, 2013 Panorama From NASA Mars Rover Shows Mount SharpRising above the present location of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, higher than any mountain in the 48 contiguous states of the United States, Mount Sharp is featured in new imagery from the rover. |
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March 15, 2013 NASA TV News Conference to Discuss Planck Cosmology FindingsNASA will host a news conference at 8 a.m. PDT (11 a.m. EDT) Thursday, March 21, to discuss the first cosmology results from Planck, a European Space Agency mission with significant NASA participation. |
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March 14, 2013 'Hot Spots' Ride a Merry-Go-Round on JupiterNASA's Cassini spacecraft tracks the shifting shape of holes in Jupiter's atmosphere over time. |
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March 13, 2013 Mars Curiosity Lands South by Southwest Interactive AwardThe down-to-Earth persona of NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has captured the 2013 South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Award for best social media campaign. |
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March 13, 2013 NASA Mars Rover Mission Picked for Smithsonian HonorThe team in charge of successfully landing NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will receive the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's 2013 Trophy for Current Achievement. |
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March 12, 2013 NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on MarsAn analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. |
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March 11, 2013 Curiosity Rover's Recovery Moving ForwardNASA's Mars rover Curiosity continues to move forward with assessment and recovery from a memory glitch that affected the rover's A-side computer. |
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March 11, 2013 Closest Star System Found in a CenturyNASA's WISE mission has found the closest star system discovered since 1916 -- a pair of brown dwarfs right in our celestial backyard. |
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March 11, 2013 Cassini Returns Images of Battered Saturn MoonCraters and a curious feature are visible in images of Rhea returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. |
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March 7, 2013 Comet PANSTARRS Rises to the Occasion Mid-MarchA beautiful comet with a bulky name is making an appearance this month for lucky sky-watchers in some parts of the world. |
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March 7, 2013 NASA Helps See Buried Mars Flood Channels in 3-DNASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided images allowing scientists for the first time to create a 3-D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the Martian surface. |
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March 7, 2013 NASA Briefing on Curiosity's Analysis of Mars RockNASA will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT), Tuesday, March 12, on the Curiosity rover's analysis of the first sample of rock powder ever collected on Mars. |
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March 7, 2013 Cassini Makes Last Close Flyby of Saturnian Moon RheaNASA's Cassini spacecraft will use its instruments to probe the internal structure of the icy Saturnian moon Rhea. |
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March 5, 2013 Herschel to Complete Its Mission SoonThe Herschel space observatory is expected to exhaust its supply of liquid helium coolant in the coming weeks, after spending more than three years studying the cool universe. |
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March 5, 2013 A Window into Europa's Ocean Right at the SurfaceA study partially funded by NASA finds evidence of ocean salt on Europa's surface. |
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March 4, 2013 Curiosity Rover's Recovery on TrackNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has transitioned from precautionary "safe mode" to active status on the path of recovery from a memory glitch last week. |
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March 1, 2013 Cassini Spies Bright Venus From Saturn OrbitA distant world gleaming in sunlight, Earth's twin planet, Venus, shines like a bright beacon in images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn. |
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February 28, 2013 Computer Swap on Curiosity RoverThe ground team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been active. |
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February 28, 2013 What Lies Beneath: NASA Antarctic Sub Goes SubglacialA mini-submarine designed and funded by NASA played a key role in a recent international expedition to explore a remote subglacial lake beneath the frozen Antarctic ice sheet. |
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February 27, 2013 NASA's NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole SpinTwo X-ray space observatories have measured definitively, for the first time, the spin rate of a black hole with a mass 2 million times that of our sun. |
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February 27, 2013 NASA's Aquarius Sees Salty ShiftsThe seasonal stirrings of our salty world are revealed by the first full year of ocean surface salinity data captured by NASA's Aquarius instrument. |
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February 26, 2013 NASA Announces New CubeSat Space Mission CandidatesNASA has selected 24 small satellites, including three from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to fly as payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2014, 2015 and 2016. |
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February 25, 2013 Lab Instruments Inside Curiosity Eat Mars Rock PowderNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has delivered sample portions of rock powder collected from the interior of a rock on Mars into laboratory instruments inside the rover. |
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February 25, 2013 NASA Hosts Media Teleconference About Black Hole StudiesNASA will host a Feb. 27 news telecon about black hole observations by its NuSTAR telescope and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray telescope. |
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February 21, 2013 NASA and JPL Contribute to European Jupiter MissionNASA has selected key contributions to a 2022 European Space Agency mission to study Jupiter and three of its largest moons. |
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February 21, 2013 NASA Student Mars Project Wins Education AwardA NASA project that allows students to use a camera on a spacecraft orbiting Mars for research has received a new education prize from the journal Science. |
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February 20, 2013 NASA Rover Confirms First Drilled Mars Rock SampleNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet. |
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February 20, 2013 NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet SystemNASA's Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun. |
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February 20, 2013 NASA Hosts Teleconference Today About Curiosity RoverNASA will host a media teleconference at noon PST (3 p.m. EST) today, Feb. 20, to provide an update on the Mars rover Curiosity mission. |
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February 19, 2013 Cassini Sheds Light on Cosmic Particle AcceleratorsStudying the flow of solar wind around Saturn's magnetic field enables scientists working with NASA's Cassini spacecraft to study the nature of far-off supernova explosions. |
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February 19, 2013 NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2012 DA14An initial sequence of radar images of asteroid 2012 DA14 was obtained on Feb. 15/16, 2013, by NASA's 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif. |
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February 15, 2013 NASA Experts Discuss Russia Meteor in Media Teleconference TodayNASA experts will hold a teleconference for news media at 1 p.m. PST (4 p.m. EST) today to discuss a meteor that streaked through the skies over Russia's Urals region this morning. |
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February 15, 2013 Additional Details on the Large Feb. 15 Fireball over RussiaNew data fill in some gaps in the story of a fireball that entered Earth's atmosphere near Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15. |
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February 14, 2013 Near-Earth Asteroid Makes Preview AppearanceAsteroid 2012 DA14, set to make its closest approach to Earth on Feb. 15, is captured in early images from Australia. |
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February 13, 2013 NASA to Chronicle Close Earth Flyby of AsteroidNASA Television will provide commentary starting at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Friday, Feb. 15, during the close, but safe, flyby of a small near-Earth asteroid named 2012 DA14. |
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February 13, 2013 National Space Club Honors Mars CuriosityThe National Space Club will honor NASA's Curiosity/Mars Science Laboratory team with three awards, including the prestigious Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy. |
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February 13, 2013 Study Sheds New Light on Arctic Sea Ice Volume LossesNew research by scientists from NASA and other agencies shows Arctic sea ice volume declined 36 percent in the autumn and nine percent in the winter over the last decade. |
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February 13, 2013 NASA's MAVEN Mission Completes AssemblyNASA's next mission to Mars, MAVEN, has completed spacecraft assembly and begun environmental testing. |
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February 12, 2013 JPL to Lead U.S. Science Team for Dark Energy MissionThe European Space Agency has selected three NASA-nominated science teams to participate in their planned Euclid mission, including one led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
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February 12, 2013 NASA Satellites Find Freshwater Losses in Middle EastA new study from a pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites finds that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during the past decade. |
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February 11, 2013 Mars Rock Takes Unusual FormOn Mars, as on Earth, sometimes things can take on an unusual appearance. A case in point is a shiny-looking rock seen in a recent image from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. |
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February 9, 2013 NASA Curiosity Rover Collects First Martian Bedrock SampleNASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior. |
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February 7, 2013 Preparatory Drill Test Performed on MarsNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has produced some rock powder with its drill as the last major test before the rover's first full drilling. |
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February 7, 2013 NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-Like Flashes in Young StarsTwo of NASA's great observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, have teamed up to uncover a mysterious infant star that behaves like a strobe light. |
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February 6, 2013 Pacific Locked in 'La Nada' LimboSea-surface height data from NASA's Jason-2 satellite show that the equatorial Pacific Ocean is still locked in what some call a neutral, or 'La Nada' state. |
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February 6, 2013 Kepler Data Suggest Earth-size Planets May Be Next DoorAstronomers using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope estimate that six percent of red dwarf stars in the galaxy have Earth-size planets in their habitable zones. |
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February 5, 2013 NASA's Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes Comet ISONNASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has acquired its first images of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON). |
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February 5, 2013 WISE Feels the Heat from Orion's SwordThe tangle of clouds and stars that lie in Orion's sword is showcased in a new, expansive view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. |
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February 4, 2013 Irvine School Wins Regional Science Bowl at JPLUniversity High School of Irvine, Calif., will represent the Los Angeles area at the National Science Bowl competition in April. |
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February 4, 2013 Weekend Test on Mars Was Preparation to Drill a RockNASA's Mars rover Curiosity used the hammering action of its drill on Feb. 2 as the second-to-last major test before the first full drilling to collect a sample of rock dust. |
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February 4, 2013 NASA to Host Feb. 7 Media Telecon on Asteroid FlybyNASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST), on Thursday, Feb. 7, to discuss an asteroid that will pass close, but safely, by Earth on Feb. 15. |
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February 4, 2013 Cassini Sees Titan Cooking up SmogA new paper details how the aerosol particles on Saturn's smog-shrouded moon get their start, suggesting ways such particles can form in the atmospheres of other worlds. |
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February 1, 2013 Small Asteroid to Whiz Past Earth SafelyA small asteroid named 2012 DA14 will safely fly past Earth's outer ring of satellites on February 15. |
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January 31, 2013 NASA's Cassini Watches Storm Choke on Its Own TailScientists see a monstrous thunder-and-lightning storm sputter out after it churns around the planet and encounters its own wake. |
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January 30, 2013 Herschel Finds Past-Prime Star May Be Making PlanetsA star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may, in fact, be creating new worlds. |
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January 29, 2013 NASA to Launch Ocean Wind Monitor to Space StationAn ocean wind monitoring instrument created from hardware used to tests parts of NASA's QuikScat satellite will launch to the International Space Station in 2014. |
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January 28, 2013 Curiosity Maneuver Prepares for DrillingNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has placed its drill onto a series of locations on a Martian rock and pressed down on it with the rover's arm, in preparation for using the drill. |
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January 28, 2013 Cool, New Views of Andromeda GalaxyTwo new eye-catching views from the Herschel space observatory are fit for a princess. |
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January 24, 2013 Thawing 'Dry Ice' Drives Groovy Action on MarsResearchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter see seasonal changes on far-northern Martian sand dunes caused by the warming of a blanket of frozen carbon dioxide. |
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January 24, 2013 NASA Officially Joins ESA's 'Dark Universe' MissionNASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. |
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January 23, 2013 Mars Rover Curiosity Uses Arm Camera at NightNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has for the first time used the camera on its arm to take photos at night, illuminated by white lights and ultraviolet lights on the instrument. |
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January 22, 2013 Betelgeuse Star Braces for Crash with Strange BarOrion, the famous hunter presiding over northern winter skies, may experience a stellar crash in its future. |
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January 22, 2013 NASA's Veteran Mars Rover Ready to Start 10th YearThough NASA's newer Mars rover has been capturing more attention recently, durable Opportunity remains hard at work after nine years of roving on the Red Planet. |
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January 22, 2013 Curiosity Rover on Display at Mars Film Premiere TonightA full-scale replica of the Curiosity Mars rover will be on display at the film premiere of "The Changing Face of Mars" on Jan 23 at Caltech's Beckman Auditorium. |
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January 20, 2013 Martian Crater May Once Have Held Groundwater-Fed LakeA NASA spacecraft is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet's early evolution. |
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January 18, 2013 NASA Celebrates Anniversary of First NASA TweetupThis month marks the fourth anniversary of the first NASA Tweetup, held at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 21, 2009. |
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January 18, 2013 Ms. Curiosity Goes to WashingtonIt's an all-American, once-every-four-years tradition: the inauguration of a president. |
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January 17, 2013 Study Finds Severe Climate Jeopardizing Amazon ForestAn area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a megadrought that began in 2005, finds a new NASA-led study. |
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January 17, 2013 Titan Gets a Dune 'Makeover'NASA's Cassini finds Saturn's largest moon, Titan, might look much younger than it really is because its craters are being erased. |
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January 16, 2013 Bubbling up Organics in an Ocean Vent SimulatorThis week, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are running an experiment simulating a deep ocean hydrothermal vent to test theories about the origins of life. |
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January 16, 2013 NASA Ozone Study May Benefit Air Standards, ClimateA new NASA-led study finds that when it comes to combating global warming caused by emissions of ozone-forming chemicals, location matters. |
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January 15, 2013 Mars Rover Curiosity's Team to Receive Space Foundation AwardThe people of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission have been named winners of a 2013 Space Foundation award for advancing exploration of space. |
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January 15, 2013 NASA Mars Rover Preparing to Drill Into First Martian RockNASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. |
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January 14, 2013 When Huygens Met TitanA new animation celebrates the 8th anniversary of the European Space Agency's Huygens probe landing on Saturn's moon Titan. It was delivered there by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. |
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January 14, 2013 NASA Hosts Jan. 15 Telecon About Mars Rover ProgressNASA hosts a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST) on Tuesday, Jan. 15, to provide an update about the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. |
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January 10, 2013 NASA Rules Out Earth Impact in 2036 for Asteroid ApophisNASA scientists at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory effectively have ruled out the possibility the asteroid Aphophis will impact Earth in 2036. |
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January 10, 2013 NASA's Galex Reveals the Largest-Known Spiral GalaxyThe spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. |
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January 9, 2013 Herschel Spacecraft Eyes Asteroid ApophisScientists using the Herschel Space Observatory made new observations of asteroid Apophis as it approached Earth this past weekend. |
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January 9, 2013 JPL to Host High-Tech Small Business ConferenceNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will host the High-Tech Conference for Small Business on March 5 and March 7 at the Westin Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport. |
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January 8, 2013 NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown DwarfNASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have probed the atmosphere of a brown dwarf, creating the most detailed 'weather map' yet for this class of cool, star-like orbs. |
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January 8, 2013 NASA, ESA Telescopes Find Evidence for Asteroid Belt Around VegaAstronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies. |
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January 8, 2013 Cassini Suggests Icing on a LakeA new model by scientists working on NASA's Cassini mission finds that hydrocarbon ice might float on lakes on Saturn's largest moon. |
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January 7, 2013 NASA's Big Mars Rover Makes First Use of its BrushNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed first-time use of a brush it carries to sweep dust off rocks. |
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January 7, 2013 NASA's NuSTAR Catches Black Holes in Galaxy WebNASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, set its X-ray eyes on a spiral galaxy and caught the brilliant glow of two black holes lurking inside. |
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January 7, 2013 NASA Kepler Scientist Honored by National Academy of SciencesWilliam Borucki, science principal investigator for NASA's Kepler mission at the agency's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in California, is the recipient of the 2013 Henry Draper Medal awarded by the National Academy of Sciences. |
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January 7, 2013 Kepler Gets a Little Help From Its FriendsMore than 2,300 exoplanet candidate discoveries have made it the most prolific planet hunter in history. |
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January 7, 2013 NASA's Kepler Discovers 461 New Planet CandidatesNASA's Kepler mission Monday announced the discovery of 461 new planet candidates. |
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January 4, 2013 Curiosity Rover Explores 'Yellowknife Bay'After imaging during the holidays, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity resumed driving Jan. 3 and pulled within arm's reach of a sinuous rock feature called "Snake River." |
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January 3, 2013 Billions and Billions of PlanetsAstronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission estimate that at least 100 billion planets populate the galaxy. |
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January 3, 2013 Picture This: Vesta's Dark Materials in Dawn's ViewA new study of images from NASA's Dawn mission examines remarkable, dark-as-coal material that speckles the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. |
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