NASA Eyes Launching SPHEREx Sky-Mapping Mission in Early 2025
NASA and SpaceX are targeting late February 2025 for the launch of the agency’s next astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx. Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of…
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NASA’s PACE, US-European SWOT Satellites Offer Combined Look at Ocean
The ocean is an engine that drives Earth’s weather patterns and climate and sustains a substantial portion of life on the planet. A new animation…
NASA Researchers Discover More Dark Comets
The first dark comet — a celestial object that looks like an asteroid but moves through space like a comet — was reported less than…
Leader of NASA’s VERITAS Mission Honored With AGU’s Whipple Award
Suzanne Smrekar, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, received the Fred Whipple Award on Monday, Dec. 9, in Washington…
Students Aim High at NASA JPL ‘Candy Toss’ Competition
The 25th Invention Challenge at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which welcomed more than 200 students to compete using home-built devices, was pretty…
NASA JPL Unveils the Dr. Edward Stone Exploration Trail
Family members, colleagues, and local dignitaries gathered on Friday, Dec. 6, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California for the unveiling of a memorial…
NASA Flights Map Critical Minerals From Skies Above Western US
On a crystal-clear afternoon above a desert ghost town, a NASA aircraft scoured the ground for minerals. The plane, a high-altitude ER-2 research aircraft, had…
NASA’s Europa Clipper: Millions of Miles Down, Instruments Deploying
NASA’s Europa Clipper, which launched Oct. 14 on a journey to Jupiter’s moon Europa, is already 13 million miles (20 million kilometers) from Earth. Two…
NASA Ocean World Explorers Have to Swim Before They Can Fly
When NASA’s Europa Clipper reaches its destination in 2030, the spacecraft will prepare to aim an array of powerful science instruments toward Jupiter’s moon Europa…
NASA Satellites Reveal Abrupt Drop in Global Freshwater Levels
An international team of scientists using observations from NASA-German satellites found evidence that Earth’s total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and…