NASA will host a televised media briefing at 1 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Sept. 17, to outline…
Category: Solar System
NASA Instrument aboard European Spacecraft Returns First Science Results
A NASA instrument aboard the European Space Agency’s (ESA's) Rosetta orbiter has successfully made its first…
NASA Probes Studying Earth’s Radiation Belts to Celebrate Two Year Anniversary
NASA's twin Van Allen Probes will celebrate on Saturday two years of studying the sun’s influence…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Crosses Neptune Orbit En Route to Historic Pluto Encounter
NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has traversed the orbit of Neptune. This is its last major…
NASA TV to Air Events That Highlight Pluto-Bound Spacecraft
Media and the public are invited to attend two events Monday, Aug. 25 from 1-3 p.m.…
Stardust Team Reports Discovery of First Potential Interstellar Space Particles
Seven rare, microscopic interstellar dust particles that date to the beginnings of the solar system are…
NASA’s 3-D Study of Comets Reveals Chemical Factory at Work
Scientists have created detailed 3-D maps of the atmospheres surrounding comets, mapping their spread at the…
NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before
The NASA Mars Rover 2020 will carry instruments to conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations…
NASA’s Long-Lived Mars Opportunity Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2004, now holds the off-Earth…