A hypothetical planet is depicted here moving through the habitable zone and then further out into a long, cold winter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Astronomers have discovered a veritable rogues’ gallery of odd exoplanets — from scorching hot worlds with m... More »
As JPL’s Dawn spacecraft takes off for its next destination, this mosaic synthesizes some of the best views the spacecraft had of the giant asteroid Vesta. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCAL/MPS/DLR/IDA JPL’s Dawn mission is releasing two parting views of the... More »
NASA’s free “Earth-Now” app, now available for Android as well as iPhone, immerses cyber explorers in dazzling visualizations of near-real-time global climate data from NASA’s fleet of Earth science satellites, bringing a world of ever-changing climate data to... More »
This view of the lower front and underbelly areas of NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity combines nine images taken by the rover’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the 34th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity’s work on Mars (Sept. 9, 2012). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Ca... More »
The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded a five-year, $9 million grant to a research group at the Caltech to study the neurobiology of social decision making. The grant establishes a Silvio O. Conte Center for Neuroscience Research at Caltech, whe... More »
An unmanned NASA Global Hawk aircraft comes in for a landing at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va., Sept. 7, kicking off the month-long Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) mission. HS3 will help researchers and forecasters uncover info... More »
Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory rover, was prepped for pre-launch survival testing under Martian conditions in JPL’s space simulator on March 8, 2011. The sealed chamber was pumped down to the near-vacuum of Mar’s atmosphere, and chilled to –130°C by fl... More »
Camera on Curiosity’s Arm as Seen by Camera on Mast The left eye of the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity took this image of the camera on the rover’s arm, the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), during the 30th Martian day, or sol, of the rover’... More »
As part of a celebration of 35 years of flight for NASA’s Voyager spacecraft, a crowd of engineers and scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., gather at von Karman auditorium to listen to insider stories about Voyager. At the top ri... More »
This artist 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 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. E... More »
This image is from the last sequence of images NASA’s Dawn spacecraft obtained of the giant asteroid Vesta, looking down at Vesta’s north pole as it was departing. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA Dawn Mission Status Report Mission controllers r... More »
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s research vessel Knorr is seen docked on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, in Woods Hole, Mass. Knorr is scheduled to depart on Sept. 6 to take part in the Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS). The NASA-s... More »
