NASA Selects Mission to Study Causes of Giant Solar Particle Storms An array of six spacecraft, each about the size of a toaster oven, will help us understand our nearest star and better protect astronauts traveling beyond Earth.Read more
10.9 Million Names Now Aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover As part of NASA's 'Send Your Name to Mars' campaign, they've been stenciled onto three microchips along with essays from NASA's 'Name the Rover' contest. Next stop: Mars.Read more
Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, perhaps siphoned away by the planet's magnetic field.Read more
Huge East Antarctic Glacier Especially Susceptible to Climate Impacts The shape of the ground beneath Denman Glacier, which is melting from the bottom up, makes it particularly vulnerable to the intrusion of seawater.Read more
NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Takes a New Selfie Before Record Climb Along with capturing an image before its steepest ascent ever, the robotic explorer filmed its "selfie stick," or robotic arm, in action.Read more
