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  • Permanent damage to the Salem New Jersey Nuclear Plant GSU Transformer caused by the severe geomagnetic storm of March 13, 1989.

    UN Braces for Stormy Space Weather  →

    02.14.13 - The United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space has a new item is on the agenda: space weather.

  • Asteroid 2012 DA14

    Near-Earth Asteroid Makes Preview Appearance

    02.14.13 - Asteroid 2012 DA14, set to make its closest approach to Earth on Feb. 15, is captured in early images from Australia.

  • Diagram depicting the passage of asteroid 2012 DA14

    NASA to Chronicle Close Earth Flyby of Asteroid

    02.13.13 - NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Friday, Feb. 15, during the close, but safe, flyby of a small near-Earth asteroid named 2012 DA14.

  • Artist's concept of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover

    NASA Hosts Telecon Today About Curiosity Rover

    02.20.13 - NASA will host a media teleconference at noon PST (3 p.m. EST) today, Feb. 20, to provide an update on the Mars rover Curiosity mission.

  • Artist concept of Mars rover Curiosity

    National Space Club Honors Mars Curiosity

    02.13.13 - NASA's Mars Curiosity rover/Mars Science Laboratory and its team will receive a trio of National Space Club awards.

  • Artist's concept of LRO in orbit

    LRO Featured in Journal Special Edition

    02.12.13 - Scientific observations made by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) are the subject of a special edition of Journal of Geophysical Research Planets.

  • White lines represent magnetic field lines looping up out of the sun's surface in this image from SDO's HMI.

    Year Three: NASA SDO Mission Highlights

    02.11.13 - In its third year in space, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has also offered several new, unexpected doors to scientific inquiry.

  • Mars image was taken by Mastcam

    Mars Rock Takes Unusual Form

    02.11.13 - NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior.

  • Views over time of the CME release by the sun on Feb. 9, 2013.

    Earth-Directed CME Release by Long Duration Solar Flare

    02.09.13 - A Coronal Mass Ejection was released by a long duration solar flare early on February 9, 2013.

  • Curiosity's first sample drilling

    NASA's Rover Collects First Martian Bedrock Sample

    02.09.13 - NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior.

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