Science News
Mars-Bound Rover Carries Coin for Camera Checkup
Feb. 8, 2012
The Lincoln penny is part of a camera calibration target attached to NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.
Galaxy Evolution Explorer in Standby Mode
Feb. 8, 2012
Galex was placed in standby mode as engineers prepare to end mission operations, nearly nine years after the telescope's launch.
Evidence for Mars Ocean 3 Billion Years Ago
Feb. 7, 2012
Mars Express has detected sediments on Mars that are reminiscent of an ocean floor.
Mars Drought Makes Life Unlikely
Feb. 7, 2012
Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet's surface.
High Planetary Tilt Lowers Odds for Life?
Feb. 6, 2012
Highly-tilted worlds would have extreme seasons, subjecting life to alternating periods of scorching and subzero temperatures.
Hubble Observes NGC 1073
Feb. 6, 2012
Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus.
Hubble Zooms in on a Magnified Galaxy
Feb. 3, 2012
Thanks to the presence of a natural "zoom lens" in space, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope got a uniquely close-up look at the brightest "magnified" galaxy yet discovered.
Super-Earth Detected in Star's Habitable Zone
Feb. 3, 2012
Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star.
Mission to Land on a Comet
Feb. 2, 2012
Science@NASA Headline News — 2012
Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft is en route to intercept a comet– and to make history. In 2014, Rosetta will enter orbit around 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko and land a probe on it for a front row seat as the comet heads toward the sun.
CERES Instrument Scanning Earth for the First Time
Feb. 2, 2012
Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument is helping to assure continued availability of measurements of the energy leaving the Earth-atmosphere system.