One of the biggest mysteries in astronomy, how stars blow up in supernova explosions, finally is being unraveled with the help of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 20, 2014
Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt,...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 23, 2014
More than three-quarters of the planet candidates discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft have sizes ranging from that of Earth to that of Neptune, which is nearly...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 7, 2014
NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 10, 2013
Just when scientists thought they had a tidy theory for how the giant asteroid Vesta formed, a new paper from NASA's Dawn mission suggests the history is more complicated...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 8, 2013
Throughout our universe, tucked inside galaxies far, far away, giant black holes are pairing up and merging.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 7, 2013
NASA's Curiosity rover is revealing a great deal about Mars, from long-ago processes in its interior to the current interaction between the Martian surface and...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | September 26, 2013
Data from NASA's Curiosity rover has revealed the Martian environment lacks methane. This is a surprise to researchers because previous data reported by U.S. and...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | September 19, 2013
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | September 12, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used autonomous navigation for the first time, a capability that lets the rover decide for itself how to drive safely on Mars.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | August 28, 2013
Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency's four...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | August 23, 2013
A year after NASA's Mars rover Curiosity's landed on Mars, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., are testing a sophisticated flight...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | August 13, 2013
Most of what scientists know of Jupiter's moon Europa they have gleaned from a dozen or so close flybys from NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979 and NASA's Galileo...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM Opinion | August 8, 2013
A pair of new papers report measurements of the Martian atmosphere's composition by NASA's Curiosity rover, providing evidence about loss of much of Mars' original...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 19, 2013