NASA Launches Small Climate Satellite to Study Earth’s Poles
The first of a pair of climate satellites designed to study heat emissions at Earth’s poles for NASA is in orbit after lifting off atop…
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NASA’s Europa Clipper Makes Cross-Country Flight to Florida
NASA’s Europa Clipper, a spacecraft designed to investigate Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and its potential to support life, arrived in Florida on Thursday, May 23.…
New Images From Euclid Mission Reveal Wide View of the Dark Universe
The Euclid mission, led by ESA (the European Space Agency) with contributions from NASA, has released five new images that showcase the space telescope’s ability…
NASA’s Psyche Fires Up Its Sci-Fi-Worthy Thrusters
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft passed its six-month checkup with a clean bill of health, and there’s no holding back now. Navigators are firing its futuristic-looking electric…
NASA Tool Gets Ready to Image Faraway Planets
The Roman Coronagraph Instrument on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help pave the way in the search for habitable worlds outside our solar…
NASA’s Juno Provides High-Definition Views of Europa’s Icy Shell
Images from the JunoCam visible-light camera aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft supports the theory that the icy crust at the north and south poles of Jupiter’s…
5 Things to Know About NASA’s Tiny Twin Polar Satellites
Twin shoebox-size climate satellites will soon be studying two of the most remote regions on Earth: the Arctic and Antarctic. The NASA mission will measure…
How ‘Glowing’ Plants Could Help Scientists Predict Flash Drought
Flaring up rapidly and with little warning, the drought that gripped much of the United States in the summer of 2012 was one of the…
NASA to Discuss New Polar Climate Mission During Media Teleconference
NASA is hosting a media call at 3 p.m. EDT (12 p.m. PDT), Wednesday, May 15, to discuss the agency’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in…
NASA Images Help Explain Eating Habits of Massive Black Hole
In images from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope, streams of dust thousands of light-years long flow toward the supermassive black hole at the heart of…