World Water Day is held annually on March 22 as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. NASA scientists and missions study Earth’s water and provide data used by decis... More »
The bulk of the Planck computations were performed on the Cray XE6 supercomputer, named for computer scientist Grace Hopper, at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkel... More »
This view of Curiosity’s left-front and left-center wheels and of marks made by wheels on the ground in the “Yellowknife Bay” area comes from one of six cameras used on Mars for the first time more than six months after the rover landed. The left Navigation Ca... More »
Scientists have now discovered that studying meteorites from the giant asteroid Vesta helps them understand the event known as the “lunar cataclysm,” when a repositioning of the gas giant planets destabilized a portion of the asteroid belt and triggered a sola... More »
The Cassini spacecraft observes three of Saturn’s moons set against the darkened night side of the planet. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute A new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft suggests that Saturn’s moons and rings are gently wo... More »
Winners of the 2013 Los Angeles regional FIRST Robotics Competition, Dos Pueblos High School Engineering Academy, Atascadero High School and Milken Community High School (pictured left to right) will go on to compete in the FIRST Championship to be held April ... More »
NASA researchers modified three repurposed Aerovironment RQ-14 Dragon Eye unmanned aerial vehicles acquired from the United States Marine Corps to study the sulfur dioxide plume of Costa Rica’s Turrialba volcano. The project is designed to improve the remote s... More »
W3 is an enormous stellar nursery about 6,200 light-years away in the Perseus Arm, one of the Milky Way galaxy’s main spiral arms, which hosts both low- and high-mass star formation. In this image from the Herschel space observatory, the low-mass forming stars... More »
JPL says an analysis of a rock sample collected by its Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon — some of the key chemical ingredients for life — in... More »
Pasadena Art Alliance President Alfrida King convened the 2013 Grants Tea Party with the comment that the annaul event “is probably our most favorite day of the Art Alliance year, it’s such a happy day. To be able to give $237,000 in grants in one fell swo... More »
“Everyone has their own story,†Gloria Killian, founder of ACWIP said after the event. “ Whether it’s a woman in prison or a woman with Parkinson’s both stories tend to get overlooked but tonight each person’s story was resembled through dance.†... More »
If you are on the hunt for that rare treasure, antique, fine art, decorative art and vintage collectable, then head over to the Pasadena Convention Center’s Exhibit Hall B this weekend. That is where you will find Pasadena’s largest and finest event of its... More »
