A NASA study based on an innovative technique for crunching torrents of satellite data provides the clearest picture yet of changes in Antarctic ice flow into the...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 22, 2018
The rate of global sea level rise has been accelerating in recent decades, rather than increasing steadily, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 14, 2018
In deep space, accurate timekeeping is vital to navigation, but many spacecraft lack precise timepieces on board.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 8, 2018
A panoramic image that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took from a mountainside ridge provides a sweeping vista of key sites visited since the rover's 2012 landing,...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 31, 2018
A new NASA Earth science mission in the early stages of design may achieve a transformational advance in our understanding of the global carbon cycle by mapping...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 16, 2018
Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined visible and infrared vision of the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 11, 2018
For the first time, scientists have shown through direct observations of the ozone hole by a satellite instrument, built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 8, 2018
Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 18, 2017
Loss of water from the rocks of California's Sierra Nevada caused the mountain range to rise nearly an inch (24 millimeters) in height during the drought years...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 15, 2017
If you could fly aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the surface of dwarf planet Ceres would generally look quite dark, but with notable exceptions.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 14, 2017
Data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its first pass over Jupiter's Great Red Spot in July 2017 indicate that this iconic feature penetrates well below...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 13, 2017
Scientists have uncovered a rare relic from the early universe: the farthest known supermassive black hole. This matter-eating beast is 800 million times the mass...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 7, 2017
If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 4, 2017
A new NASA tool links changes in sea level in 293 global port cities to specific regions of melting land ice, such as southern Greenland and the Antarctic Peninsula...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 22, 2017
Dark features on Mars previously considered evidence for subsurface flowing of water are interpreted by new research as granular flows, where grains of sand and...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 21, 2017
One of the most spectacular achievements in physics so far this century has been the observation of gravitational waves, ripples in space-time that result from...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 17, 2017
Surface features on Ceres—the largest world between Mars and Jupiter—and its interior evolution have a closer relationship than one might think.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 10, 2017
Heat from friction could power hydrothermal activity on Saturn's moon Enceladus for billions of years if the moon has a highly porous core, according to a new modeling...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 8, 2017