New Radar to Monitor Volcanoes and Earthquakes from Space To help monitor ground deformation from space, NASA developed a new technology equipped with an S-band Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) for a small satellite platform.

NASA's New Mars Rover Is Ready for Space Lasers Perseverance is one of a few Mars spacecraft carrying laser retroreflectors. The devices could provide new science and safer Mars landings in the future.

Dragonfly Launch Moved to 2027 Dragonfly is a NASA mission that delivers a rotorcraft to Saturn’s moon Titan to advance our search for the building blocks of life.

NASA Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month 2020 Hispanics contribute in multiple ways and in a wide variety of roles to NASA exploration missions: from astronauts to communications directors, researchers, engineers, medical professionals and much more. This month, follow us on our social networks to learn and be inspired by some of their stories... Read More

Cyclones of Color at Jupiter’s North Pole Citizen scientist Gerald Eichstädt made this composite image using data obtained by the JunoCam instrument during four of the Juno spacecraft’s close passes by Jupiter. The greatly exaggerated color is partially a result of combining many individual images to create this view.

School Bus-Size Asteroid to Safely Zoom Past Earth Roughly 15 to 30 feet wide, the object will make its closest approach on Sept. 24.

NASA to Provide Update on Agency’s First Asteroid Sample Collection Attempt NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 24, to provide an update on the agency’s first attempt to contact the surface of asteroid Bennu and collect a sample next month.

NASA’s IRIS Spots Nanojets: Shining Light On Heating the Solar Corona In a paper published today in Nature Astronomy, researchers report the first ever clear images of nanojets -- bright thin lights that travel perpendicular to the magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere, called the corona -- in a process that reveals the existence of one of the potential coronal... Read More

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx to Asteroid Bennu: “You’ve got a little Vesta on you…” It appears some pieces of asteroid Vesta ended up on asteroid Bennu, according to observations from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The new result sheds light on the intricate orbital dance of asteroids and on the violent origin of Bennu.

Comet Discovered to Have Its Own Northern Lights An atmospheric light show previously relegated to planets and Jupiter moons is found on comet using data from ESA's Rosetta spacecraft.

NASA Invites Media to Launch of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite from West Coast Media accreditation is open for the launch of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, an international collaboration between NASA and several partners.

NASA Selects 18 Space Biology Research Proposals to Advance Scientific Knowledge of Life in Space and Foster Human Space Exploration NASA announces the award of 18 grants for exciting new Space Biology research that will advance NASA’s understanding of how living systems respond, acclimate, and adapt to the space environment in support of human space exploration.