A tale of two cities

What do Seattle and New York share in common? Both cities are using satellite data to plan for future climate change...

Camera on Curiosity's Arm Will Magnify Clues in Rocks

A camera installed this month on the robotic arm of NASA's next Mars rover will do close-up inspections for clues to Martian environments, but it can ...

Hayabusa Spacecraft Returns Asteroid Artifacts From Space

Scientists involved with the first space mission attempting to sample asteroid surface material and return to Earth, have confirmed the presence of particles collected from a small container aboard Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft...

NASA Goes to the Set of CBS's 'The Big Bang Theory'

It all started with a Big Bang. Well, actually, it all started with a beach ball. Not just any beach ball, but one that is printed with data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP...

Yihua Zheng: A New Breed of Weather Forecaster

Yihua Zheng is the lead for NASA's Space Weather Services -- the organization that alerts mission leaders when solar storms are headed towards Earth ...

NASA Chat: Antarctic Fliers, Live!

Researchers have been making flights over Antarctica on NASA's DC-8 flying science laboratory to map ice surfaces and the features hidden below. On Thurs., Nov. 18, at 1 p.m. EST, scientists will answer your questions about the mission...

NASA's Chandra Finds Youngest Nearby Black Hole

Observations have revealed that a slowly rotating neutron star with an ordinary surface magnetic field is giving off bursts of X-rays and gamma rays...

Youngest-Ever Nearby Black Hole Discovered

An amazingly young black hole--only 30 years old--has been found in a nearby galaxy by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory...

Sunspot 1123 Hurls Filament toward Earth

Active sunspot 1123 erupted during early on Nov. 12, producing a C4-class solar flare and hurling a filament of material in the general direction of ...

Earth's Dust Tail Points to Alien Planets

Did you know Earth has a long tail of dust? It's real, and it could lead researchers to the discovery of distant alien worlds...

Detailed Dark Matter Map Yields Clues to Galaxy Cluster Growth

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took advantage of a giant cosmic magnifying glass to create one of the sharpest and most detailed maps of dark matter in the universe...

Status Update: Cassini to Resume Nominal Operations

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., expect the Cassini spacecraft will resume normal operations on Nov. 24...

NASA's Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Structure in our Galaxy

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole...

Sunspot 1121 Unleashes X-ray Flare

On Saturday, Active Region 1112 unleashes an M class solar flare...

Global View of Fine Aerosol Particles

Of all the pollution that fills our lungs on any given day, the most dangerous is the small stuff...