LEIA Stories
A gallery of gravitational lenses captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases the diversity of this cosmic phenomenon and lays the groundwork for follow-up observations by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
As a new exhibit opens showcasing NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour, NASA photographers look back at the final mission. These photographers documented the iconic images shared around the world on Sept. 21, 2012, while millions watched space shuttle Endeavour fly on…
Blanket bogs in the Scottish Highlands store vast amounts of carbon.
Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute Earth planning date: Friday, Nov. 6, 2026 This week Curiosity has been completing its drill campaign at the “Nazca” drill hole. This is an area characterized by bedrock containing disk-shaped…
Rounds of heavy rain in the U.S. Southwest flooded rivers and rapidly raised New Mexico’s second-largest reservoir.
The LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) observatory, now in development, will detect gravitational waves, the tiny ripples in space-time caused by orbiting masses. Now two studies led by NASA astrophysicists show in new detail how LISA could reveal a new…
Low clouds trace the branching valleys of the Appalachian Plateau and the Cumberland River, then burn off by afternoon.
By Remington Free, Operations Systems Engineer, NASA-JPL Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 30, 2026 Today’s plan covered 3 sols, 5060, 5061, and 5062, as we take a few recharging sols before getting back to our normal drilling activities. As you…
Written by Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 23, 2026 As regular readers of this blog will know, we returned to the area where we found disc shaped inclusions…
Written by Roger C. Wiens, SuperCam Principal Investigator for NASA’s Perseverance rover at Purdue University Nov. 4, 2026 Exploration on Mars turns up the unexpected. Perseverance is equipped with a fantastic set of instruments for studying the rock record of…