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 »
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 »
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 »
