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NASA’s Planetary Radar Captures Detailed View of Oblong Asteroid

February 18, 2023
On Feb. 3, an asteroid more than three times as long as it is wide safely flew past Earth at a distance of about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers, or a little under five times the distance between the Moon and Earth). While there was no risk of the asteroid – called 2011 AG5 – impacting our planet, scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California closely tracked…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Shows Off Collection of Mars Samples

February 15, 2023
Even space robots know what “pics or it didn’t happen” means: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover provided a panorama of its recently completed sample depot – a big milestone for the mission and humanity’s first collection of samples on another planet. The panorama…
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NASA’s NuSTAR Telescope Reveals Hidden Light Shows on the Sun

February 10, 2023
Loading Image Comparison… Wavelengths of light from three space observatories are overlapped to provide a unique view of the Sun in the image at left. The high-energy X-ray light detected by one of those observatories, NASA’s NuSTAR, is seen isolated at right; a grid was added to indicate the Sun’s surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JAXA Even on a sunny day, human eyes can’t see…
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NASA’s Curiosity Finds Surprise Clues to Mars’ Watery Past

February 9, 2023
When NASA’s Curiosity rover arrived at the “sulfate-bearing unit” last fall, scientists thought they’d seen the last evidence that lakes once covered this region of Mars. That’s because the rock layers here formed in drier settings than regions explored earlier in…
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University High Reclaims Victory at JPL-Hosted Science Bowl

February 7, 2023
A team from Irvine, California’s University High School prevailed over teams from 19 other schools Saturday, Feb. 4, at the regional competition of the National Science Bowl, hosted for the 31st year by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The victory…
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Webb Detects Extremely Small Main Belt Asteroid

February 6, 2023
An asteroid roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum – between 300 to 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) in length – has been detected by an international team of European astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Their project used data from the calibration of the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), in which the team serendipitously detected an interloping asteroid. The object is likely the…
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NASA Scientists & Historian Named AAAS 2022 Fellows

February 1, 2023
Four individuals with NASA affiliations have been named 2022 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in recognition of their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements in the scientific enterprise. Election as a Fellow by the AAAS Council honors members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society have…
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