NASA collected Mars rocks to haul to Earth. It still hasn’t decided how.
The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...
Scientists explain worrying things that would happen if Earth’s magnetic field flipped with NASA on alert over ‘dent’
It is this magnetic field that has recently got NASA scientists on high alert following the identification of a 'dent' in the ...
Fire Meets Zero Gravity As NASA Preps for Major Spacewalks
Wednesday was a busy day aboard the International Space Station (ISS), as the crew tackled cutting-edge microgravity research ...
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NASA Is One Step Closer to Bringing Mars Samples to Earth
The agency is starting down two different paths toward the samples' return, but only one will bring the red rocks home.
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Earth’s magnetic field has a dent, and NASA is watching closely
NASA monitors the South Atlantic Anomaly, a growing magnetic field disturbance affecting satellites and spacecraft.
NASA overhauls plan to bring samples from Mars back to Earth
NASA said in its announcement it is changing the plan for the spacecraft that will land on Mars to retrieve the samples and ...
‘8 Earths packed tight’: NASA discovers super-earth in a rare planetary system
Earth' 750 light-years away, with 8 Earth masses packed into 1.6x Earth’s size, orbiting its star in just 21 hours.
NASA Image Reveals Intense Cold Weather Across the US this Week
Temperatures dropped a low as -22 degrees F in the northern Midwest on January 6 due to a powerful winter storm.
NASA Satellite Captures Stunning Snow-Covered Midwest After Polar Vortex Blast
The images, captured on January 6 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA’s Aqua ...
‘10 billion pixels’: NASA-ISRO’s NISAR to capture Earth’s changes down to the centimeter
NASA-ISRO’s NISAR mission will track Earth’s changes to the centimeter using dual-band radar, offering unprecedented insights ...