NASA’s 6-Pack of Mini-Satellites Ready for Their Moment in the Sun
Most NASA missions feature one spacecraft or, occasionally, a few. The agency’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) is using half a dozen. This month,…
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Google’s ‘A Passage of Water’ Brings NASA’s Water Data to Life
As part of the long-standing partnership between NASA and Google, NASA worked with Google Arts & Culture and artist Yiyun Kang to create an interactive…
NASA Orbiter Snaps Stunning Views of Mars Horizon
Astronauts often react with awe when they see the curvature of the Earth below the International Space Station. Now Mars scientists are getting a taste…
NASA Uses Two Worlds to Test Future Mars Helicopter Designs
For the first time in history, two planets have been home to testing future aircraft designs. On this world, a new rotor that could be…
NASA Mission Excels at Spotting Greenhouse Gas Emission Sources
More than a year after first detecting methane plumes from its perch aboard the International Space Station, data from NASA’s EMIT instrument is now being…
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Comm Demo Sends, Receives First Data
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment has beamed a near-infrared laser encoded with test data from nearly 10 million miles (16 million kilometers) away…
NASA Data Reveals Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking
Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres and shrinking. In a new study using NASA’s retired Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers find evidence of a…
NASA’s Cold Atom Lab Sets Stage for Quantum Chemistry in Space
For the first time in space, scientists have produced a quantum gas containing two types of atoms. Accomplished with NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory aboard the…
Webb Follows Neon Signs Toward New Thinking on Planet Formation
Scientists are following neon signs in a search for clues to one planetary system’s future and the past of another – our own solar system.…
Trailblazing New Earth Satellite Put to Test in Preparation for Launch
NISAR, the trailblazing Earth-observing radar satellite being developed by the United States and Indian space agencies, passed a major milestone on Nov. 13, emerging from…