A seafloor vent called a “white smoker” spews mineral-rich water into the ocean and serves as an energy hub for living creatures. Some scientists think…
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Vaneeza Rupani (inset), a junior at Tuscaloosa County High School in Northport, Alabama, came up with the name Ingenuity for NASA’s Mars Helicopter (an artist’s…
This image shows two massive black holes in the OJ 287 galaxy. The smaller black hole orbits the larger one, which is also surrounded by…
Large “Potentially Hazardous” Asteroid NASA Has Been Tracking for 22 Years Will Fly Past Earth Today
Large “Potentially Hazardous” Asteroid NASA Has Been Tracking for 22 Years Will Fly Past Earth Today
Artist’s concept of a near-Earth object. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The large near-Earth object is well known to astronomers and will get no closer than 3.9 million…
This image of the Perseverance Mars rover was taken at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 7, 2020, during a test of the vehicle’s mass…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope took this image of the California Nebula on January 25, 2020, five days before the spacecraft was decommissioned. The red and…
Earthrise by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, December 1968. Earth at gibbous phase as seen from the Moon. Credit: NASA To honor the day’s 50th…
Members of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover mission team photographed themselves on March 20, 2020, the first day the entire mission team worked remotely from home.…
Voyager 2 took this image as it approached the planet Uranus on January 14, 1986. The planet’s hazy bluish color is due to the methane…
Researchers from UCI and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are concerned that the unique topography beneath East Antarctica’s Denman Glacier could make it even more susceptible…
(Click image for full view.) This selfie was taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on Feb. 26, 2020 (the 2,687th Martian day, or sol, of…
The technology behind the Mars Helicopter’s 4-foot-wide (1.2-meter-wide) rotor blades is also used in the construction of a rugged drone that helps farmers survey their…
Greenland’s Steenstrup Glacier, with the midmorning sun glinting off the Denmark Strait in the background. The image was taken during a NASA IceBridge airborne survey…
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, now called Perseverance, undergoes processing at a payload servicing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on February 14, 2020. Image Credit:…
This illustration depicts NASA’s Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Perseverance will land at the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater a little after 3:40…
NASA’s Curiosity rover captured its highest-resolution panorama of the Martian surface between Nov. 24 and December 1, 2019. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS To go along with the…
CoSTAR member and Caltech graduate student Amanda Bouman operates a robot called Spot, which was provided by Boston Dynamics with autonomy “smarts” provided by JPL.…
In this artist’s concept of NASA’s InSight lander on Mars, layers of the planet’s subsurface can be seen below and dust devils can be seen…
An illustration of a concept for a possible wind-powered Venus rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, under a grant from the…
NASA InSight recently moved its robotic arm closer to its digging device, called the “mole,” in preparation to push on its top, or back cap.…