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Weekend Test on Mars Was Preparation to Drill a Rock
02.04.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used the hammering action of its drill on Feb. 2 as the second-to-last major test before the first full drilling to collect a sample of rock dust.
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NASA to Host Feb. 7 Media Telecon on Asteroid Flyby
02.04.13 - NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST), on Thursday, Feb. 7, to discuss an asteroid, 150 feet (45 meters) in diameter, that will pass close, but safely, by Earth on Feb. 15.
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Small Asteroid to Whiz Past Earth Safely
02.01.13 - A small asteroid named 2012 DA14 will safely fly past Earth's outer ring of satellites on February 15.
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VISIONS: Seeing the Aurora in a New Light
02.07.13 - A sounding rocket to study the aurora and how oxygen and hydrogen escape Earth's atmosphere may launch as early as Feb. 2, 2013, but the team has a two-week window in order to find the perfect launch conditions.
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NASA's Cassini Watches Storm Choke on Its Own Tail
01.31.13 - Scientists see a monstrous thunder-and-lightning storm sputter out after it churns around the planet and encounters its own wake.
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SDO Provides First Sightings of How a CME Forms
01.31.13 - On July 18, 20012, scientists used NASA's SDO to see for the first time the formation of something they had long known was at the heart of many eruptive events on the sun: a flux rope.
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A Coronal Mass Ejection Erupts From the Sun
01.31.13 - A small, Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejection erupted early this morning.
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Building Four Spacecraft for One Mission
01.31.13 - An unprecedented mission is being built at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The center is simultaneously building four identical spacecraft for the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission due to launch in late 2014.
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Curiosity Maneuver Prepares for Drilling
01.28.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has placed its drill onto a series of four locations on a Martian rock and pressed down on it with the rover's arm, in preparation for using the drill in coming days.
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Sun Shoots Out 2 Coronal Mass Ejections
01.24.13 - One of the two slow-moving ejections from Jan. 23 is Earth-directed. In the past, CMEs of this speed have not caused substantial geomagnetic storms.