WASP-18b is a “hot Jupiter,” a giant exoplanet that orbits very close to its star, located about 330 light years…
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman captured this image of Florida to Louisiana just before dawn, taken from the International Space Station,…
The blue dot in this image marks the spot of an energetic pulsar -- the magnetic, spinning core of star…
This month's Arctic Radiation IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment (ARISE) will fly a C-130 Hercules aircraft to study how summer…
Originally called the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, Landsat-8 collects frequent global multispectral imagery of the Earth’s surface, adding to the…
The location of the primary landing site (Site J) for European Space Agency’s Rosetta lander, Philae, is highlighted in this…
A thin sliver of Mimas is illuminated, the long shadows showing off its many craters, indicators of the moon's violent…
MetOp-A is Europe’s first polar orbiting satellite dedicated to meteorology. Operating at a much lower altitude than geostationary satellites, MetOp-A…
NISAR is optimized for studying hazards and global environmental change.Launch: 2021Operating Network: Near Space Network
OCO-2 is NASA’s first remote sensing satellite dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide.Launch: July 2014Operating Network: Near Space Network