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Martian dust cascades

This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows streaks forming on slopes when dust cascades downhill.

February 10, 2018

Elon Musk, on Falcon Heavy’s triumphant launch

Follow Musk's description of the successful launch of the Falcon Heavy lift vehicle, which will give the U.S. a capability in space not seen since the Saturn V rockets of the Apollo era.

Deborah Byrd

February 7, 2018

James Webb Telescope arrives in California

The James Webb Telescope's 2 component halves had been undergoing testing in Houston. They're now at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in California, about to be assembled.

Deborah Byrd

February 7, 2018

TRAPPIST-1 worlds likely terrestrial and water-rich

Terrestrial means more like Earth than Jupiter or Saturn. Water-rich means a potential for life. New insights about the 7 planets orbiting the nearby star TRAPPIST-1.

Deborah Byrd

February 6, 2018

Watch online as 2 asteroids sweep close this week

How to watch online this week as 2 newly discovered asteroids - 2018 CB and 2018 CC - sweep closer to Earth than the moon.

Deborah Byrd

February 5, 2018

Asteroid to buzz by Super Bowl Sunday

How to watch online as asteroid 2002 AJ129 - a relatively massive, fast-moving asteroid - passes at about 10 times the moon's distance on February 4, 2018.

Deborah Byrd

February 3, 2018

Mount Sharp photobombs Mars rover selfie

Mars' Mount Sharp - whose flanks are the focus of the Curiosity rover's studies on Mars - photobombed this January 2018 selfie of the rover.

Deborah Byrd

February 1, 2018

View of Mars rover’s journey so far

Check out this sweeping vista on the planet Mars, taken by the Curiosity rover from a mountainside ridge. It provides a look back at key sites visited by the rover since its 2012 landing.

Eleanor Imster

February 1, 2018