SWOT Satellite Catches Coastal Flooding During California Storms
A series of atmospheric rivers drenched California in February, with record amounts of rainfall and hurricane-force winds sweeping across parts of the state. At one…
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NASA’s Juno Mission Measures Oxygen Production at Europa
Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have calculated the rate of oxygen being produced at the Jovian moon Europa to be substantially less than…
NASA’s Planetary Radar Images Slowly Spinning Asteroid
On Feb. 2, a large asteroid safely drifted past Earth at a distance of about 1.8 million miles (2.9 million kilometers, or 7 ½ times…
Webb Finds Evidence for Neutron Star at Heart of Young Supernova Remnant
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for emission from a neutron star at the site of a recently observed supernova.…
NASA Tech Tuesday: Seeing Is Communicating
Communicating when a traumatic brain injury, stroke, or disease has made speech impossible can be daunting. Specialized eye-tracking technology uses eye movement to enable people…
NASA Telescopes Find New Clues About Mysterious Deep Space Signals
What’s causing mysterious bursts of radio waves from deep space? Astronomers may be a step closer to providing one answer to that question. Two NASA…
Team Assessing SHERLOC Instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Rover
Data and imagery from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover indicate one of two covers that keep dust from accumulating on the optics of the SHERLOC instrument…
Meet NASA’s Twin Spacecraft Headed to the Ends of the Earth
Two new miniature NASA satellites will start crisscrossing Earth’s atmosphere in a few months, detecting heat lost to space. Their observations from the planet’s most…
NASA Awards Inaugural Grants to Support Emerging Research Institutions
NASA has awarded $3.7 million to 11 teams to support new collaborations between the agency and United States institutions not historically part of the agency’s…
NASA’s New Experimental Antenna Tracks Deep Space Laser
An experimental antenna has received both radio frequency and near-infrared laser signals from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft as it travels through deep space. This shows it’s…