How Many Black Holes Are Hiding? NASA Study Homes in on Answer
Multiple NASA telescopes recently helped scientists search the sky for supermassive black holes — those up to billions of times heavier than the Sun. The…
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How US-Indian NISAR Satellite Will Offer Unique Window on Earth
The upcoming U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission will observe Earth like no mission before, offering insights about our planet’s ever-changing surface. The NISAR…
NASA’s New Deep Space Network Antenna Has Its Crowning Moment
NASA’s Deep Space Network, an array of giant radio antennas, allows agency missions to track, send commands to, and receive scientific data from spacecraft venturing…
Avalanches, Icy Explosions, and Dunes: NASA Is Tracking New Year on Mars
While New Year’s Eve is around the corner here on Earth, Mars scientists are ahead of the game: The Red Planet completed a trip around…
Lab Work Digs Into Gullies Seen on Giant Asteroid Vesta by NASA’s Dawn
Pocked with craters, the surfaces of many celestial bodies in our solar system provide clear evidence of a 4.6-billion-year battering by meteoroids and other space…
Cutting-Edge Satellite Tracks Lake Water Levels in Ohio River Basin
The Ohio River Basin stretches from Pennsylvania to Illinois and contains a system of reservoirs, lakes, and rivers that drains an area almost as large…
NASA Mars Orbiter Spots Retired InSight Lander to Study Dust Movement
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) caught a glimpse of the agency’s retired InSight lander recently, documenting the accumulation of dust on the spacecraft’s solar panels.…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reaches Top of Jezero Crater Rim
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has crested the top of Jezero Crater’s rim at a location the science team calls “Lookout Hill” and rolling toward its…
NASA’s Juno Mission Uncovers Heart of Jovian Moon’s Volcanic Rage
Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io are each likely powered by their own chamber of…
NASA-DOD Study: Saltwater to Widely Taint Coastal Groundwater by 2100
Seawater will infiltrate underground freshwater supplies in about three of every four coastal areas around the world by the year 2100, according to a recent…