NASA : Science World Report

Jul 19, 2013 10:35 AM EDT

NASA’s Hubble Reveals Link Between Stars' Age and Their Orbits in Dense Cluster

With the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have determined the orbital motion of two distinct populations of stars in an ancient globular star cluster.

Jul 18, 2013 04:03 PM EDT

Curiosity Mars Rover Passes Kilometer of Driving

The latest drive by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover brought the total distance that the rover has driven on Mars to more than 1 kilometer. One kilometer is about 0.62 mile.

Jul 09, 2013 12:01 PM EDT

NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Hits the Road to Mount Sharp

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is on the road again, continuing its trek across the Red Planet. With drives on July 4 and July 7, the rover departed its last scientists target in the "Glenelg" area and has begun its many-month overland journey to its next destination--Mount Sharp.

Jul 04, 2013 10:33 AM EDT

NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Captures Stunning Martian Moonrise (Video)

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has been trekking across the Red Planet, collecting crucial data as it drills into rocks and gathers samples. Now, the rover has caught stunning images of one of Mars' two tiny moons climbing high into the sky during a fantastic moonrise.

Jun 18, 2013 08:24 PM EDT

CubeSat High-Altitude Flight Test by Student Teams in California Desert

Four tiny spacecraft soared over the California desert June 15 in a high-altitude demonstration flight that tested the sensor and equipment designs created by NASA engineers and student launch teams.

Jun 08, 2013 08:45 AM EDT

NASA Discovers Unmapped Wildfire Destroying Amazon Rainforest

NASA has revealed that unknown understory fires are destroying several times more Amazon rainforest than has been lost through deforestation in recent years.

Jun 08, 2013 08:04 AM EDT

NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Discovers New Rock, Revealing Planet's Watery Past

NASA Mars rover Opportunity isn't just on the move, it's also discovered a clay-rich rock that hints to the fact that water existed on the Red Planet in the past.

Jun 06, 2013 08:20 PM EDT

See This Developing Tropical Storm From Space That Will Hit Florida This Weekend

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over low pressure System 91L in the Gulf of Mexico and captured infrared imagery that revealed a lot of uplift and strong thunderstorms in the eastern part of the storm despite a poorly organized circulation. NOAA's GOES-East satellite showed the large extent of the low ...

Jun 06, 2013 08:11 PM EDT

NASA Builds Sophisticated Earth-observing Microwave Radiometer

A NASA team delivered in May a sophisticated microwave radiometer specifically designed to overcome the pitfalls that have plagued similar Earth-observing instruments in the past.

Jun 05, 2013 05:19 PM EDT

Ion Drive Powered Dawn Spacecraft is Flying Through Asteroid Belt

Traveling from one alien world to another, Dawn is reliably powering its way through the main asteroid belt with its ion propulsion system.

Jun 05, 2013 01:26 PM EDT

Climate Change on Mars: NASA Rover Curiosity Discovers Evidence of Ancient Rivers

The Mars rover Curiosity may not have found evidence of life, but it's definitely found evidence of water on the Red Planet. NASA scientists have revealed that the rover has found evidence that rivers once ran across the surface of Mars that were between an inch to nearly three feet deep.

Jun 01, 2013 08:23 AM EDT

Astronauts Impacted by Radiation Hazards on Mars Trek: Cancer Risk Increases in Deep Space

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has confirmed the hazards of space radiation. Sending astronauts to the Red Planet without a properly protected spacecraft could drastically increase their risk of cancer.