The Cassini spacecraft looks down, almost directly at the north pole of Dione. The feature just left of the terminator at bottom is Janiculum Dorsa, a long, roughly north-south trending ridge. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute From a distance, mos... More »
The orbit of asteroid 1998 QE2. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA is inviting members of the media and public to participate in online and televised events May 30 to 31 with NASA officials and experts discussing the agency’s asteroid initiative and the Earth... More »
This artist’s concept features NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars’ past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will host a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. PDT (2... More »
Drawing of the HMS Challenger survey vessel preparing to measure ocean temperatures by lowering thermometers deep into the ocean on ropes in 1872. A new NASA and University of Tasmania study combined the ship’s 135-plus-year-old measurements of ocean temperatu... More »
Created with the help of supercomputers, this still from a simulation shows the formation of a massive galaxy during the first 2 billion years of the universe. Hydrogen gas is gray, young stars appear blue, and older stars are red. The simulation reveals that ... More »
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden met with members of the asteroid initiative team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Thursday. Later, Bolden and some team members spoke with media inside a JPL lab where advanced technology propulsion systems are built and te... More »
On Monday, May 13, 2013, Grammy-winner Koji Nakamura brought his skills as a Taiko drummer to the Pasadena Waldorf School (PWS) campus for a special performance with seven students from the Eighth Grade class. Mr. Nakamura is the leader of the Los Angeles base... More »
The three NASA-built instruments and associated ground support equipment for the U.S./European Jason-3 ocean altimetry satellite are removed from a Cargo Lux 747-800 transport plane in Luxembourg on May 21, 2013, following a transatlantic flight. The instrumen... More »
Several telescopes have teamed up to discover a rare and massive merging of two galaxies that took place when the universe was just 3 billion years old (its current age is about 14 billion years). The galaxies, collectively called HXMM01, are churning out the ... More »
Ligeia Mare, shown in here in data obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, is the second largest known body of liquid on Saturn’s moon Titan. It is filled with liquid hydrocarbons, such as ethane and methane, and is one of the many seas and lakes that bejewel T... More »
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Thursday will be at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena to see a prototype ion thruster being tested for NASA’s mission to capture and relocate an asteroid, it was announced today. JPL and NASA’s Glenn Resear... More »
In 1959, Dr. Richard Feynman, the famous CalTech theoretical physicist, issued a challenge at a meeting of the American Physical Society that effectively ushered in the field of nanotechnology. “I want to offer a prize of $1,000 to the first guy who makes an... More »
