An elongated crater called "Spirit of St. Louis," with a rock spire in it, dominates a recent scene from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
NASA's NuSTAR has spotted a mysterious glow of high-energy X-rays in the heart of the Milky way that could be the "howls" of dead stars as they feed on stellar companions.
NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator test vehicle has arrived at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii.
The websites and a mobile app selected for best-of-the-Web honors represent the diversity of NASA's online offerings.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft entered into its first science orbit on Thursday, April 23, as scheduled.
This week marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, and JPL is celebrating its significant role in the historic mission.
A view from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on April 8, 2015, catches sight of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover passing through a valley called "Artist's Drive" on the lower slope of Mount Sharp.
Forecasters are already finding NASA's new ISS-RapidScat mission helpful as they keep watch on major storms around the globe.
A new initiative is dedicated to the search for life on planets outside our solar system.
NASA's new satellite mission to map the water in the soil under our feet has passed another key milestone by generating its first full global maps.
Jason-3 will add to a 23-year data set used to study climate change and ocean cycles like El Niño, as well as for hurricane forecasts, navigation and other ocean needs.
The two brightest spots on dwarf planet Ceres, which have fascinated scientists for months, are back in view in the newest images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
The two brightest spots on dwarf planet Ceres, which have fascinated scientists for months, are back in view in the newest images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
Fans of NASA can vote for the agency's nominees in the 2015 Webby awards competition.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is approaching a new geological unit and has surpassed 10 kilometers in total distance driven on Mars.
After spending more than a month in orbit on the dark side of dwarf planet Ceres, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has captured several views of the sunlit north pole of this intriguing world.
An asteroid discovered by NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft has a new designation: 316201 Malala, to honor Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan, who received the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
Space telescopes may one day make use of glitter-like materials to help take images of new worlds, according to JPL researchers.
NASA will celebrate the 45th annual Earth Day April 17-22 with a variety of live and online activities to engage the public in the agency's mission to better understand and protect our home planet.
Long, sinuous, tendril-like structures seen near Enceladus originate directly from its geysers, according to scientists studying images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away, making it one of the most distant planets known.
The long-standing mystery of why Saturn seethes with enormous storms every 30 years may have been solved by scientists working with data from NASA's Cassini mission.
Martian weather and soil conditions that NASA's Curiosity rover has measured, together with a type of salt found in Martian soil, could put liquid brine in the soil at night.
A new color map of dwarf planet Ceres, which NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been orbiting since March, reveals the diversity of the surface of this planetary body.
Smartphones and other personal electronic devices could, in some regions of the world, function as early warning systems for large earthquakes, according to a new study.
New maps of two recent California megafires that combine unique data sets from the U.S. Forest Service and JPL are answering some of the urgent questions that follow a huge wildfire.
Runners at JPL have begun the first of 22 laps in a marathon-length relay today to celebrate the Opportunity Mars rover's achievement of driving farther than a marathon on Mars.
JPL has licensed patents on high-temperature thermoelectric materials to Evident Technologies, Troy, New York.
Researchers from NASA and other institutions are in the U.S. Southwest, aiming to uncover reasons for a mysterious methane "hot spot" detected from space.
Next time you sip a humble glass of H2O, consider this: The story of water connects each of us to processes that shape our universe.
Since its capture by the gravity of dwarf planet Ceres on March 6, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has performed flawlessly, continuing to thrust with its ion engine as planned.
NASA has selected six scientists as recipients of the 2015 Carl Sagan Exoplanet Postdoctoral Fellowships.
This Earth Day, April 22, NASA is asking people around the world to share pictures and videos on social media that show there is no place like home -- planet Earth.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, at Mars since 2006, made an unplanned switch on Wednesday from one main computer to a redundant one onboard, triggering a hiatus in planned activities.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has climbed uphill from an outcrop it studied for six months and found a site with two-tone mineral veins forming "ice-cream sandwich" ridges.
NASA will air an event on Tuesday, April 7, about recent discoveries of water and organics in our solar system, our sun's role in water-loss in neighboring planets, and our search for habitable worlds.
New NASA data find the snowpack in the Tuolumne River Basin currently contains just 40 percent as much water as it did near this time at its highest level of 2014.
NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project will be flying a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle into near-space from the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, in June.
NASA's Curiosity rover is using a new experiment to better understand the history of the Martian atmosphere by analyzing xenon.
NASA has announced the release of Vesta Trek, a free, web-based application that provides detailed visualizations of Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in our solar system.
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