Astronomer Ed Shaya was in his office looking at data from NASA's Kepler space telescope in 2012 when he noticed something unusual: The light from a galaxy had...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 27, 2018
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover just hit a new milestone: its two-thousandth Martian day, or sol, on the Red Planet. An image mosaic taken by the rover in January offers...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 26, 2018
Observations of Ceres have detected recent variations in its surface, revealing that the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system is a dynamic body that continues...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 15, 2018
Data collected by NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter indicate that the atmospheric winds of the gas-giant planet run deep into its atmosphere and last longer than similar...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 8, 2018
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has conducted the first test of a new drilling technique on the Red Planet since its drill stopped working reliably.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 1, 2018
NASA's Mars InSight lander team is preparing to ship the spacecraft from Lockheed Martin Space in Denver, where it was built and tested, to Vandenberg Air Force...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 26, 2018
A NASA study based on an innovative technique for crunching torrents of satellite data provides the clearest picture yet of changes in Antarctic ice flow into the...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 22, 2018
The rate of global sea level rise has been accelerating in recent decades, rather than increasing steadily, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 14, 2018
In deep space, accurate timekeeping is vital to navigation, but many spacecraft lack precise timepieces on board.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 8, 2018
A panoramic image that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took from a mountainside ridge provides a sweeping vista of key sites visited since the rover's 2012 landing,...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 31, 2018
A new NASA Earth science mission in the early stages of design may achieve a transformational advance in our understanding of the global carbon cycle by mapping...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 16, 2018
Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined visible and infrared vision of the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 11, 2018
For the first time, scientists have shown through direct observations of the ozone hole by a satellite instrument, built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 8, 2018
Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 18, 2017
Loss of water from the rocks of California's Sierra Nevada caused the mountain range to rise nearly an inch (24 millimeters) in height during the drought years...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 15, 2017
If you could fly aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the surface of dwarf planet Ceres would generally look quite dark, but with notable exceptions.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 14, 2017
Data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its first pass over Jupiter's Great Red Spot in July 2017 indicate that this iconic feature penetrates well below...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 13, 2017
Scientists have uncovered a rare relic from the early universe: the farthest known supermassive black hole. This matter-eating beast is 800 million times the mass...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 7, 2017
If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 4, 2017