Monday, February 25, 2013 | 4:05 pm
The left Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity took this image of Curiosity’s sample-processing and delivery tool just after the tool delivered a portion of powdered rock into the rover’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument. This Collection... More »
Monday, February 25, 2013 | 10:05 am
Artist’s concept of NuSTAR in orbit. NuSTAR has a 33-foot (10-meter) mast that deploys after launch to separate the optics modules (right) from the detectors in the focal plane (left). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a... More »
Friday, February 22, 2013 | 7:03 am
Ever wondered where the name Nickelodeon came from? What about the phrase “in the lime light†or silver screen? Galen Wilkes, a historical entertainer who specializes in silent films, detailed those factoids and more in his presentation of the movie-going ... More »
Thursday, February 21, 2013 | 5:35 pm
The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, JUICE (Artist impression ) Image credit: ESA/AOES NASA has selected key contributions to a 2022 European Space Agency (ESA) mission that will study Jupiter and three of its largest moons in unprecedented detail. The moon... More »
Thursday, February 21, 2013 | 1:35 pm
Ninth-grade, high-school students from Peoria, AZ analyze images of Mars. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU A NASA project that allows students to use a camera on a spacecraft orbiting Mars for research has received a new education prize from the journal Scie... More »
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 | 2:05 pm
First Curiosity Drilling Sample in the Scoop This image from NASA’s Curiosity rover shows the first sample of powdered rock extracted by the rover’s drill. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS JPL’s Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it ha... More »
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 | 11:35 am
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star like our sun, approximately 210 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Kepler mission scientists... More »
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 | 10:05 am
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 noon PST (3 p.m. ES... More »
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | 3:38 pm
Jean-Lou Chameau, the eighth president of the California Institute of Technology, announced his intent to step down from the position in a letter to the Caltech community today. Chameau plans to leave later this year. “President Chameau has served Caltech with... More »
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | 2:35 pm
This artist’s impression by the European Space Agency shows NASA’s Cassini spacecraft exploring the magnetic environment of Saturn. Image credit: ESA During a chance encounter with what appears to be an unusually strong blast of solar wind at Saturn, NASA’s Ca... More »
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | 12:05 pm
This collage of 72 individual radar-generated images of asteroid 2012 DA14 was created using data from NASA’s 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech An initial sequence of radar images of asteroid 201... More »
Friday, February 15, 2013 | 2:05 pm
PASADENA — NASA experts will hold a teleconference for news media at 1 p.m. PST (4 p.m. EST) today to discuss a meteor that streaked through the skies over Russia’s Urals region this morning. Scientists have determined the Russia meteor is not related to aster... More »