This set of images shows what might be hardware from the Soviet Union’s 1971 Mars 3 lander, seen in a pair of images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ.... More »
NASA’s FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to the Earth-Moon system, where astronauts can visit and explore it. Image credit: NASA WASHINGTON — The following are statements from the a... More »
This artist’s concept illustrates how charged water particles flow into the Saturnian atmosphere from the planet’s rings, causing a reduction in atmospheric brightness. The observations were made with the W.M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, with NASA f... More »
WASHINGTON — NASA’s official Twitter feed, @NASA, has won its second consecutive Shorty award for the best government use of social media. The Shorty Award honors the best of social media across sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Foursquare and ... More »
The 2013 Carl Sagan Fellows (left to right): Jared Males, University of Arizona, Tucson; Katja Poppenhaeger, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.; Jacob Simon, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas; Jennifer Yee, California ... More »
Dust from Mars Drilling: Tailings and Discard Piles This image shows the first holes into rock drilled by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, with drill tailings around the holes plus piles of powdered rock collected from the deeper hole and later discarded after oth... More »
This color composite view combines violet, green, and infrared images of Jupiter’s intriguing moon, Europa, for a view of the moon in natural color (left) and in enhanced color designed to bring out subtle color differences in the surface (right). The bright w... More »
Tvashtar in Motion This five-frame sequence of New Horizons images captures the giant plume from Io’s Tvashtar volcano. Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanical... More »
This artist’s concept depicts a dense, dead star called a white dwarf crossing in front of a small, red star. The white dwarf’s gravity is so great it bends and magnifies light from the red star. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Kepler space telescope has... More »
On March 17, 2013, NASA’s Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) acquired synthetic aperture radar data over the Napo River in Ecuador and Peru. The image colors indicate the likelihood of inundation (flooding) beneath the forest canopy, ... More »
This sequence of seven images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows wind-caused changes in the parachute of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft as the chute lay on the Martian grou... More »
The tip of the “wing” of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this new view from NASA’s Great Observatories. The Small Magellanic Cloud, or SMC, is a small galaxy about 200,000 light-years way that orbits our own Milky Way spiral galaxy. Image cred... More »
