How NASA’s Perseverance Is Helping Prepare Astronauts for Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to help scientists understand the planet’s climate and…
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Detects Largest Organic Molecules Found on Mars
Scientists analyzing pulverized rock onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover have found the largest organic compounds on the Red Planet to date. The finding, published Monday in…
NASA Takes to the Air to Study Wildflowers
NASA research is revealing there’s more to flowers than meets the human eye. A recent analysis of wildflowers in California shows how aircraft- and space-based…
Next-Generation Water Satellite Maps Seafloor From Space
There are better maps of the Moon’s surface than of the bottom of Earth’s ocean. Researchers have been working for decades to change that. As…
ESA Previews Euclid Mission’s Deep View of ‘Dark Universe’
The Euclid mission — led by ESA (European Space Agency) with contributions from NASA — aims to find out why our universe is expanding at…
NASA’s EZIE Launches on Mission to Study Earth’s Electrojets
Under the nighttime California sky, NASA’s EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:43 p.m. PDT on March…
Students Dive Into Robotics at Competition Supported by NASA JPL
High school students who spent weeks designing, assembling, and testing 125-pound rolling robots put their fast-moving creations into the ring over the weekend, facing off…
NASA Analysis Shows Unexpected Amount of Sea Level Rise in 2024
Global sea level rose faster than expected in 2024, mostly because of ocean water expanding as it warms, or thermal expansion. According to a NASA-led…
NASA-ISRO Mission Will Map Farmland From Planting to Harvest
When it launches this year, the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite will provide a powerful data stream that could help farmers in the U.S.…
NASA Launches Missions to Study Sun, Universe’s Beginning
NASA’s newest astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx, is on its way to study the origins of our universe and the history of galaxies, and to search for…