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New, Exciting Experiments Headed to the International Space Station
Space Experiments
Sep 25, 2020
New, Exciting Experiments Headed to the International Space Station
Dragonfly Launch Moved to 2027
Solar System
Sep 25, 2020
Dragonfly is a NASA mission that delivers a rotorcraft to Saturn’s moon Titan to advance our search for the building blocks of life.
NASA Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month 2020
Sep 24, 2020
Hispanics contribute in multiple ways and in a wide variety of roles to NASA exploration missions: from astronauts to communications directors, researchers, engineers, medical professionals and much more. This month, follow us on our social networks to learn and be inspired by some of their stories... Read More
Hispanic Heritage Month collage
Cyclones of Color at Jupiter’s North Pole
Solar System, Planets of Our Solar System
Sep 24, 2020
Citizen scientist Gerald Eichstädt made this composite image using data obtained by the JunoCam instrument during four of the Juno spacecraft’s close passes by Jupiter. The greatly exaggerated color is partially a result of combining many individual images to create this view.
Colorful composite image of Jupiter
School Bus-Size Asteroid to Safely Zoom Past Earth
Solar System
Sep 22, 2020
Roughly 15 to 30 feet wide, the object will make its closest approach on Sept. 24.
NASA to Provide Update on Agency’s First Asteroid Sample Collection Attempt
Solar System
Sep 22, 2020
NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 24, to provide an update on the agency’s first attempt to contact the surface of asteroid Bennu and collect a sample next month.
NASA’s IRIS Spots Nanojets: Shining Light On Heating the Solar Corona
Sun
Sep 21, 2020
In a paper published today in Nature Astronomy, researchers report the first ever clear images of nanojets -- bright thin lights that travel perpendicular to the magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere, called the corona -- in a process that reveals the existence of one of the potential coronal... Read More
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx to Asteroid Bennu: “You’ve got a little Vesta on you…”
Solar System
Sep 21, 2020
It appears some pieces of asteroid Vesta ended up on asteroid Bennu, according to observations from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The new result sheds light on the intricate orbital dance of asteroids and on the violent origin of Bennu.
Comet Discovered to Have Its Own Northern Lights
Solar System
Sep 21, 2020
An atmospheric light show previously relegated to planets and Jupiter moons is found on comet using data from ESA's Rosetta spacecraft.
NASA Invites Media to Launch of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite from West Coast
Earth
Sep 18, 2020
Media accreditation is open for the launch of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, an international collaboration between NASA and several partners.
NASA Selects 18 Space Biology Research Proposals to Advance Scientific Knowledge of Life in Space and Foster Human Space Exploration
Space Experiments
Sep 18, 2020
NASA announces the award of 18 grants for exciting new Space Biology research that will advance NASA’s understanding of how living systems respond, acclimate, and adapt to the space environment in support of human space exploration.
What Will Solar Cycle 25 Look Like?
Sun
Sep 17, 2020
The Sun is stirring from its latest slumber. As sunspots and flares, signs of a new solar cycle, bubble from the Sun’s surface, scientists wonder what this next cycle will look like.
Emissions Could Add 15 Inches to 2100 Sea Level Rise, NASA-Led Study Finds
Earth
Sep 17, 2020
If greenhouse gas emissions continue apace, Greenland and Antarctica’s ice sheets could together contribute more than 15 inches of global sea level rise by 2100.
Episode 21 - Our Next Solar Cycle
Sun, Earth’s Space Environment
Sep 16, 2020
The Sun goes through regular cycles of activity approximately every 11 years, and tracking these cycles is a key part of better understanding the Sun and mitigating its impacts on human technology and astronauts in space. 
NASA Science Live Solar Cycle