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  • Graphic of SUMI instrument.

    SUMI Rocket Launches Successfully

    07.05.12 - UPDATE: SUMI sounding rocket launches successfully and data results look good.

  • Artist's concept illustrating a dusty planet-forming disk

    The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Dust

    07.05.12 - Astronomers have discovered that vast amounts of planetary dust, enough to fill the inner portions of a solar system, have suddenly vanished.

  • Active Region 1515 unleased an M6.1 class solar flare at 7:38am EDT.

    Another M-class Flare from Sunspot 1515

    07.05.12 - Today's M6.1 solar flare, originating from behemoth sunspot AR1515, is the twelfth M-class flare from that region in the last 3 days.

  • Greeley Panorama

    Mars Panorama - Next Best Thing to Being There

    07.05.12 - A 360-degree view combining 817 separate images displays features that surrounded NASA's Mars rover Opportunity during a four-month winter work campaign.

  • Four view of the sun's M5.3 flare on July 4, 2012 at different temperatures.

    Independence Day Fireworks

    07.04.12 - Even the sun joins in America's Fourth of July celebration, with an M5.3 solar flare.

  • SDO captures M5.6 class solar flare early on July 2, 2012.

    Solar Fireworks on July 2

    07.03.12 - On July 2, 2012, an M5.6 class solar flare erupted from the sun, peaking at 6:52 AM EDT.

  • Diagram showing Earth's magnetosphere and how it interacts with the solar wind.

    Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field

    07.02.12 - A NASA-funded researcher at the University of Iowa has figured out how to find X-points, places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun.

  • Artist's concept of MSL fireworks

    Fireworks Over Mars - The Spirit of 76 Pyrotechnics

    07.02.12 - Seventy-six pyrotechnic devices must fire on time during the descent of Mars Science Laboratory to the Martian surface on August 5.

  • image of satellite dish superimposed with 23:59:60 text

    Why June 30 is Getting an Extra Second

    06.29.12 - How will you spend your bonus time on June 30?

  • Artist's concept shows a possible scenario for the internal structure of Titan

    Cassini Finds Likely Subsurface Ocean on Saturn Moon

    06.28.12 - Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed Saturn's moon Titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its ice shell.

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