NASA Selects Commercial Service Studies to Enable Mars Robotic Science
NASA has identified nine U.S. companies to perform a total of 12 concept studies of how commercial services can be applied to enable science missions…
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NASA’s Webb Maps Weather on Planet 280 Light-Years Away
An international team of researchers has successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b. Precise…
NASA Grants Support Academic Collaborations for STEM Student Success
NASA has awarded $3.9 million to 13 teams at under-resourced academic institutions across the country, to support collaborative projects with NASA that offer students mentorship…
Launch Date Set for NASA’s PREFIRE Mission to Study Polar Energy Loss
NASA and Rocket Lab are targeting no earlier than Wednesday, May 22, 2024, for the first of two launches of the agency’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant…
Webb Captures Top of Iconic Horsehead Nebula in Unprecedented Detail
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of a zoomed-in portion of one of the most distinctive objects in…
NASA Scientists Gear Up for Solar Storms at Mars
In the months ahead, two of NASA’s Mars spacecraft will have an unprecedented opportunity to study how solar flares — giant explosions on the Sun’s…
NASA Grant Brings Students at Underserved Institutions to the Stars
What does wastewater management in Los Angeles have to do with the search for life on Mars? Eduardo Martinez certainly didn’t make the connection when…
NASA-Led Study Provides New Global Accounting of Earth’s Rivers
A study led by NASA researchers provides new estimates of how much water courses through Earth’s rivers, the rates at which it’s flowing into the…
NASA’s Optical Comms Demo Transmits Data Over 140 Million Miles
Riding aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, the agency’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration continues to break records. While the asteroid-bound spacecraft doesn’t rely on optical…
NASA’s CloudSat Ends Mission Peering Into the Heart of Clouds
CloudSat, a NASA mission that peered into hurricanes, tallied global snowfall rates, and achieved other weather and climate firsts, has ended its operations. Originally proposed…