This image taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the view of Victoria Crater from Duck Bay. Opportunity reached Victoria Crater on Sol 951 (September 27, 2006) after traversing 9.28 kilometers (5.77 miles) since her land... More »
Artist’s concept of NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 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 four times as b... More »
Figure 1 – This animated GIF shows Asteroid 2014 AA, discovered by the NASA-sponsored Catalina Sky Survey on Jan. 1, 2014, as it moved across the sky. Image credit: CSS/LPL/UA Update: Jan. 3, 2014, 5 p.m. PST Several sources confirm that the first discovered a... More »
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity observed this outcrop on the “Murray Ridge” portion of the rim of Endeavour Crater as the rover approached the 10th anniversary of its landing on Mars. Eighth graders didn’t have Facebook or Twitter to share news back ... More »
This animated GIF shows Asteroid 2014 AA, discovered by the NASA-sponsored Catalina Sky Survey on Jan. 1, 2014, as it moved across the sky. Image credit: CSS/LPL/UA Early Wednesday morning (Jan. 1, 2014), while New Year’s 2014 celebrations were still underwa... More »
This aerial photo shows the NASA Deeps Space Network complex outside of Canberra, Australia in 1997. The Canberra complex officially opened in 1965. Because of celestial mechanics and trajectories, the best spacecraft tracking requires stations located in both... More »
NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2 spacecraft is moved into a thermal vacuum chamber at Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Satellite Manufacturing Facility in Gilbert, Ariz., for a series of environmental tests. The tests confirmed the integrity of the obs... More »
President Obama named five NASA researchers Monday, including one from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as recipients of the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). These recipients and 97 other federal researchers will rece... More »
Painted Lines on an Ornament The globe of Saturn, seen here in natural color, is reminiscent of a holiday ornament in this wide-angle view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute This holiday season, feast your ey... More »
A researcher at Jet Propulsion Laboratory said his group discovered a new approach to identifying planets that may host life or are hospitable to life. The new study was published in Science journal on Friday, December 20. Mark Swain, who studies atmospheres o... More »
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity captured this 360-degree view using its Navigation Camera (Navcam) after a 17-foot (5.3 meter) drive on 477th Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s work on Mars (Dec. 8, 2013). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Mars Science Laboratory Mis... More »
NASA’s NEOWISE spacecraft opened its “eyes” after more than two years of slumber to see the starry sky. This image of a patch of sky in the constellation Pisces is among the first taken by the spacecraft’s infrared cameras. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Probe... More »
