This April 6, 2014, image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows…
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…
