NASA’s Europa Clipper Gets Set of Super-Size Solar Arrays
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft recently got outfitted with a set of enormous solar arrays at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Each measuring about…
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Danish Instrument Helps NASA’s Juno Spacecraft See Radiation
Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission have developed the first complete 3D radiation map of the Jupiter system. Along with characterizing the intensity of the high-energy…
NASA-Designed Greenhouse Gas-Detection Instrument Launches
Tanager-1, the Carbon Mapper Coalition’s first satellite, which carries a state-of-the-art, NASA-designed greenhouse-gas-tracking instrument, is in Earth orbit after lifting off aboard a SpaceX Falcon…
NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour
Most familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover…
NASA Funds Research Projects Advancing STEM Career Development
NASA has awarded $6 million to 20 teams from emerging research institutions across the United States supporting projects that offer career development opportunities for science,…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover to Begin Long Climb Up Martian Crater Rim
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover will soon begin a monthslong ascent up the western rim of Jezero Crater that is likely to include some of the…
NASA Demonstrates ‘Ultra-Cool’ Quantum Sensor for First Time in Space
NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, a first-of-its-kind facility aboard the International Space Station, has taken another step toward revolutionizing how quantum science can be used in…
NASA Mission Concludes After Years of Successful Asteroid Detections
Engineers on NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) mission commanded the spacecraft to turn its transmitter off for the last time Thursday. This…
Here’s How Curiosity’s Sky Crane Changed the Way NASA Explores Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover mission is celebrating a dozen years on the Red Planet, where the six-wheeled scientist continues to make big discoveries as it inches…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Scientists Find Intriguing Mars Rock
A vein-filled rock is catching the eye of the science team of NASA’s Perseverance rover. Nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” by the team, the arrowhead-shaped rock contains…