Science News
Cold and Spellbinding: An Alignment of Planets in the Sunset Sky
Feb. 17, 2012
Science@NASA Headline News — 2012
The brightest planets in the night sky are aligning for a must-see show in late February and March 2012. Start looking tonight!
'Honeycombs' and Hexacopters Help Tell Story of Mars
Feb. 16, 2012
Formations in the Channeled Scablands help scientists understand the forces that shape planets. NASA interns are applying those lessons to Mars.
Europe Hammered by Winter, Is North America Next?
Feb. 16, 2012
Science@NASA Headline News — 2012
After a slow start to winter around much of the Northern Hemisphere, Europe has plunged into a deep freeze. In today's story from Science@NASA, JPL climatologist Bill Patzert describes how and why Mother Nature has done an about face.
Rhea Before Titan
Feb. 15, 2012
Craters appear well defined on icy Rhea in front of the hazy orb of the much larger moon Titan in this Cassini spacecraft view of these two Saturn moons.
NASA Releases Latest 'Blue Marble' Image of the Earth
Feb. 14, 2012
A 'Blue Marble' HD image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite.
JPL and Caltech CubeSat Proposals Move Forward
Feb. 14, 2012
NASA has selected 33 small satellites - including two Cubesats - to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2013 and 2014.
Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze
Feb. 13, 2012
All-sky image shows the distribution of carbon monoxide (CO), a molecule used by astronomers to trace molecular clouds across the sky.
NASA Science Aircraft to Travel the Globe in 2012
Feb. 13, 2012
Multiple aircraft and specialized instruments will operate in the United States, Europe, Asia and South America this year in support of studies conducted by NASA and the Earth science community.
3-D Map Study Shows Before-After of 2010 Mexico Quake
Feb. 10, 2012
Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape, and it's giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave.
Transforming Galaxies
Feb. 10, 2012
Markarian 779 has a distorted appearance because it is likely the product of a recent galactic merger between two spirals.