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  • The landing site of NASA's Curiosity rover

    NASA Curiosity Team Pinpoints Site for First Drive

    08.17.12 - The scientists and engineers of NASA's Curiosity rover mission have selected the first driving destination for their one-ton, six-wheeled mobile Mars laboratory.

  • NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Image

    NASA to Host Curiosity Rover Teleconference Aug. 17

    08.16.12 - Curiosity rover has returned high-resolution color images of its surroundings on Mars that reveal a landscape not unlike portions of the southwestern United States.

  • Artist concept of LRO

    LRO Detects Helium in Moon's Atmosphere

    08.15.12 - Scientists using LRO's spectrometer have observed helium in the tenuous atmosphere surrounding the moon.

  • NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Image

    Orbiter Views NASA's New Mars Rover in Color

    08.14.12 - The first color image taken from orbit showing NASA's rover Curiosity on Mars includes details of the layered bedrock on the floor of Gale Crater that the rover is beginning to investigate.

  • A sprite glows red in the middle right of this image captured by astronauts on the ISS.

    Heliophysics Nugget: Seeing Sprites

    08.14.12 - In the summer of 2011, scientists recorded some of the best movies of sprites ever taken -- movies that can be used to study this poorly understood phenomenon and the forces that create them.

  • STEREO's view of the fastest CME to date, taken on July 23, 2012 at 3:54 UTC.

    STEREO Observes One of the Fastest CMEs On Record

    08.13.12 - On July 23, 2012, a massive cloud of solar material erupted off the sun. NASA Goddard scientists clocked the giant cloud, known as a coronal mass ejection, or CME, at speeds between 1,800 and 2,200 miles per second.

  • Artist's concept shows NASA's Dawn spacecraft orbiting the giant asteroid Vesta

    Dawn Engineers Assess Reaction Wheel

    08.13.12 - Engineers are working on part of a system that helps the Dawn spacecraft point precisely. The rest of the spacecraft is otherwise healthy.

  • President Obama calls Curiosity team. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

    President Obama Calls to Congratulate Curiosity Team

    08.13.12 - President Barack Obama congratulated members of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover team at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday.

  • NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Image

    NASA Hosts Teleconference About Curiosity Progress

    08.13.12 - Curiosity rover has returned high-resolution color images of its surroundings on Mars that reveal a landscape not unlike portions of the southwestern United States.

  • NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Image

    Curiosity Sends High-Resolution Color Images

    08.11.12 - Curiosity rover has returned high-resolution color images of its surroundings on Mars that reveal a landscape not unlike portions of the southwestern United States.

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