Cassini Returns Images of Bright Jets at Enceladus

NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully dipped near the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Nov. 30.

Pits, Flows, Other Scenes in New Set of Mars Images

Newly released images from 340 recent observations of Mars by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show details of a wide assortment of Martian environments...

NASA Aids in Characterizing Super-Earth Atmosphere

Using a ground-based telescope, astronomers, including two NASA Sagan Fellows, made the first characterizations of a super-Earth's atmosphere. A super-Earth is a planet up to three times the size of Earth and up to 10 times the weight...

NASA-German SOFIA Observatory Completes First Science Flight

NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, completed the first of three science flights Wednesday morning, Dec. 1, to demonstrate the aircraft's potential to make discoveries about the infrared universe...

Searching the Heavens for Newborn Stars

SOFIA, NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, made its first science flight overnight Wednesday, focusing on the Orion nebula and the Sharpless 140 star cluster...

Venus Holds Warning for Earth

 

New information about a high-altitude layer of sulphur dioxide on Venus could be a warning against injecting Earth's atmosphere with sulphur droplets to mitigate climate change...

Mars Rover Construction Webcam Tops Million Viewers

More than one million people have watched assembly and testing of NASA's next Mars rover via a live webcam since it went online in October...

NASA Scientist to Speak at Imagination Station About the Amazing

  

A NASA research physicist working on the next generation James Webb Space Telescope, will discuss his work with visitors of the Imagination Station science center in Toledo, Ohio, Saturday...

The Sun Steals Comets from Other Stars

Many of the comets in our Solar System might have come from other stars, say NASA supported researchers. Studying these 'alien' comets could reveal new information about stellar systems far, far away...