Drilled Hole and ChemCam Marks at ‘Cumberland’ The Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity was used to check the composition of gray tailings from the hole in rock target “Cumberland” that the rover drilled on May 19, 2013. Ima... More »
Stars Shoot Jets in Cosmic Playground Dozens of newborn stars sprouting jets from their dusty cocoons have been spotted in images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. New views from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope show blooming stars in our Milky Way galaxy’s m... More »
A principal scientific investigator at the Caltech Resnick Sustainability Institute, Dr. Frances Arnold, has received this year’s Eni Award in Renewable and Non-Conventional Energy, it was announced today. The Eni Award for Renewable and Non-Conventional ene... 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 (2:3... More »
Using a precision formation-flying technique, the twin GRAIL spacecraft will map the moon’s gravity field, as depicted in this artist’s rendering. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the ... More »
Cruise Vehicles (Artist Concept) This set of artist’s concepts shows NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory cruise capsule and NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which is being built now at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and will one day send astronauts to Mars. Image Credit: NASA... More »
First radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 were obtained when the asteroid was about 3.75 million miles (6 million kilometers) from Earth. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR A sequence of radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 was obtained on the evening of May 29, 2... More »
NASA’s Curiosity rover found evidence for an ancient, flowing stream on Mars at a few sites, including the rock outcrop pictured here, which the science team has named “Hottah” after Hottah Lake in Canada’s Northwest Territories. It may look like a broken side... More »
The fifth science flight of NASA’s Global Hawk (green line) concluded when the aircraft landed at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2013 after flying over Tropical Storm Nadine in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean. The HS3 scien... More »
This artist’s conception shows how families of asteroids are created. Over the history of our solar system, catastrophic collisions between asteroids located in the belt between Mars and Jupiter have formed families of objects on similar orbits around the sun.... More »
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 »
