This infographic explains a popular theory of active supermassive black holes, referred to as the unified model
QuikScat acquires all-weather, high resolution measurements of near-surface winds over global oceans using specialized microwave radar.Launch: June 1999Operating Network: Near…
Rosetta is a European Space Agency mission to orbit a periodic comet, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and dispatch a lander, called Philae, to…
Soyuz Commander and cosmonaut Maxim Suraev, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and European astronaut Alexander Gerst will launch aboard the Soyuz…
SAC-D characterizes salinity variation and investigates the linkage between ocean circulation, the Earth’s water cycle, and climate variability.Mission Duration: June…
Astronomers have found cosmic clumps so dark, dense and dusty that they throw the deepest shadows ever recorded. The clumps…
The largest crater associated with a March 2012 impact on Mars has many smaller craters around it, revealed in this…
This image from the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a dark spot (at center…
From an astronaut's point of view in Earth orbit, it would be difficult to miss the Mississippi River as it…
One of the Expedition 39 crew members aboard the International Space Station used an 800mm lens to record a still…
