NASA scientists have found a wide diversity of minerals in the initial samples of rocks collected by the Curiosity rover in the lowermost layers of Mount Sharp...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 9, 2017
NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has released its third year of survey data, with the spacecraft discovering 97 previously...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 6, 2017
A long-lasting lake on ancient Mars provided stable environmental conditions that differed significantly from one part of the lake to another, according to a comprehensive...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 2, 2017
Saturn's icy, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus may have tipped over in the distant past, according to recent research from NASA's Cassini mission.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | May 31, 2017
Pale "halos" around fractures in bedrock analyzed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover contain copious silica, indicating that ancient Mars had liquid water for a long...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | May 31, 2017
Early science results from NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | May 25, 2017
NASA is asking scientists to consider what would be the best instruments to include on a mission to land on Jupiter's icy moon, Europa.
NASA From ACM News | May 17, 2017
Astronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | May 11, 2017
As it drives uphill from a band of rippled sand dunes, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is toting a fistful of dark sand for onboard analysis that will complete the...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | May 8, 2017
Scientists have discovered a new planet with the mass of Earth, orbiting its star at the same distance that we orbit our sun.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | April 26, 2017
NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is departing "Cape Tribulation," a crater-rim segment it has explored since late 2014, southbound for its next destination...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | April 21, 2017
Raul Polit Casillas grew up around fabrics. His mother is a fashion designer in Spain, and, at a young age, he was intrigued by how materials are used for design...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | April 20, 2017
Two veteran NASA missions are providing new details about icy, ocean-bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn, further heightening the scientific interest of these and...NASA From ACM News | April 14, 2017
NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn since 2004, is about to begin the final chapter of its remarkable story.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | April 5, 2017
Continuing on its path through the outer regions of the solar system, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has now traveled half the distance from Pluto—its storied first...NASA From ACM News | April 4, 2017
As children, we learned about our solar system's planets by certain characteristics—Jupiter is the largest, Saturn has rings, Mercury is closest to the sun. Mars...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 20, 2017
A recent NASA-funded study has shown how the hydrocarbon lakes and seas of Saturn's moon Titan might occasionally erupt with dramatic patches of bubbles.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 17, 2017
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's tiny moon, Pan, were taken on March 7, 2017, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The flyby had a close-approach distance of...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 10, 2017
Finding derelict spacecraft and space debris in Earth's orbit can be a technological challenge.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 10, 2017