Percolating Clues: NASA Models New Way to Build Planetary Cores
5 min read Percolating Clues: NASA Models New Way to Build Planetary Cores NASA’s Perseverance rover was traveling in the channel of an ancient river,...
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Planetary Alignment Provides NASA Rare Opportunity to Study Uranus
5 Min Read Planetary Alignment Provides NASA Rare Opportunity to Study Uranus Artist’s illustration showing a distant star going out of sight as it is...
Have We Been to Uranus? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 56
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Have we ever been to Uranus? The answer is simple, yes, but only once....
How Can I See the Northern Lights? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 54
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) How can I see the northern lights? To see the northern lights, you need...
New Modeling Assesses Age of Next Target Asteroid for NASA’s Lucy
Although NASA’s Lucy spacecraft’s upcoming encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson is primarily a mission rehearsal for later asteroid encounters, a new paper suggests that this...
NASA Awards Launch Service for Mission to Study Storm Formation
Credit: NASA NASA has selected Firefly Aerospace Inc. of Cedar Park, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS)...
NASA to Brief Media on Asteroid Sample Mission Findings
Jason Dworkin, project scientist for OSIRIS-REx at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, views a portion of the asteroid Bennu sample in the...
NASA’s Planetary Defenders Head to the Sundance Film Festival
Trailer for NASA’s upcoming documentary, “Planetary Defenders,” which will take audiences inside the high-stakes world of asteroid hunting and planetary defense. NASA is bringing the...
Science Done by Volunteers Highlighted at December’s American Geophysical Union Meeting
More than 30,000 scientists gathered in Washington, D.C. during the second week of December – many to show off the work of NASA’s science volunteers!...
NASA Selects Companies for Commercial SmallSat Services Award
Credit: NASA NASA has selected eight companies for a new award to help acquire Earth observation data and provide related services for the agency. The...
