NASA Sounding Rocket Technology Could Enable Simultaneous, Multi-Point Measurements — First-Ever Capability

With new avionics technology, sounding rockets could deploy multiple soda can-sized sub-payloads to varying altitudes where…

Hubble Observes 1st Confirmed Interstellar Comet

Hubble has given astronomers their best look yet at an interstellar visitor — comet 2I/Borisov —…

Two Decades of Rain, Snowfall from NASA’s Precipitation Missions

GPM and TRMM have created a 20-year data record of daily global precipitation, giving scientists an…

Planetary Scientist Tom Fauchez Looks for Habitable Planets and Makes a Mean Pot au Feu

Planetary scientist, Tom Fauchez looks for habitable planets and cooks a mean pot au feu. …

Hubble Snaps Spiral's Profile

Seen nearly edge-on in this Hubble image, spiral galaxy NGC 3717 sits about 60 million light-years…

New Research Sheds Light on the Ages of Lunar Ice Deposits

The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon’s south pole has helped to…

Milky Way Raids Intergalactic 'Bank Accounts,' Hubble Study Finds

Gas blown out of the Milky Way disk from exploding stars falls back onto the galaxy…

Milky Way’s Center Will Be Revealed by NASA’s Webb Telescope

After its launch, Webb will gather infrared light that has penetrated the dusty veil, revealing the…

Douglas Morton: Monitoring the Earth for a Brighter Future

Douglas Morton, chief of the Biospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,…

Pressure Runs High at Edge of Solar System

Out at the boundary of our solar system, pressure runs high. This pressure, the force plasma,…