This simulated view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows the expected positions of Saturn and Earth on July 19, 2013, around the time Cassini will take Earth’s picture. Cassini will be about 898 million miles (1.44 billion kilometers) away from Earth at the ti... More »
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has been on the western rim of Endeavour Crater in Meridiani Planum for about two years. Until May 2013, it was investigating sedimentary layers that are three to four billion years old on a portion of the rim called “... More »
This artist’s concept shows a Super Venus planet on the left, and a Super Earth on the right. Researchers use a concept known as the habitable zone to distinguish between these two types of planets, which exist beyond our solar system. Image credit: NASA/JPL-C... More »
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this image with its left front Hazard-Avoidance Camera (Hazcam) just after completing a drive that took the mission’s total driving distance past the 1 kilometer (0.62 mile) mark. The image was taken on July 16, 2013, durin... More »
Kidspace is throwing an action packed Birthday Party for the Galvin Physics 1st Anniversary over the weekend of July 12-14, celebrating the increased scope of learning and exposure to physics since its opening day July 12, 2012. “It is fun to have all the ... More »
Debris disks around stars naturally form complex structures without the presence of a planet. This image shows the dust density and the growth of structure in a simulated disk, which extends about 100 times farther from its star than Earth’s orbit around the s... More »
Don Yeomans, manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech For his work making the solar system’s nomads of the night sky — near-Earth objects, asteroids and comets — ta... More »
Lower slopes of Mount Sharp appear at the top of this image taken by the right Navigation Camera (Navcam) of NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity at the end of a drive of about 135 feet (41 meters) during the 329th Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s work on Mars (July... More »
RoboSimian, a disaster-relief robot designed to compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge, is under construction at JPL. Credit: JPL-Caltech. Image Credit: JPL-Caltech Update RoboSimian, an ape-like disaster-recovery robot designed and built at NASA’s Jet Propul... More »
This artist’s concept shows how the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) laser will beam data to Earth from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA. NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that could... More »
Artist’s Concept of Mars 2020 Rover Planning for NASA’s 2020 Mars rover envisions a basic structure that capitalizes on the design and engineering work done for the NASA rover Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012, but with new science instruments selected t... More »
This global view of Mars is composed of about 100 Viking Orbiter images. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will host a media teleconference at noon PDT (3 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday, July 9 to provide details about a report that will help define science objectives... More »
