Experiments in Space

Credit: NASA Goddard/MAVEN/SVS/Greg Shirah Researchers have created the first map of wind circulation in the upper atmosphere of a planet besides Earth, using data from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft that were collected during the last…

Remote reprogramming of the MAVEN spacecraft and one of its instruments enables collection of wind data on Mars, revealing circulation patterns that bear the signature of mountains and valleys hundreds of kilometers below Today, a paper…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center A type of Martian aurora first identified by NASA's MAVEN spacecraft in 2016 is actually the most common form of aurora occurring on the Red Planet, according to new results from…

NASA, University of Colorado Boulder, Embry-Riddle present findings at AGUCredit: Embry-Riddle/Daryl LaBello SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - A newly published study, presented on Dec. 12 at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting, reveals…

NASA funding supports design to eliminate harmful vapor bubbles in spacecraft fuel tanks SAN ANTONIO -- Dec. 11, 2019 -- SwRI has received an additional $500,000 in NASA funding to evaluate a device designed to deliver liquid propellant to…

Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin Shortly after NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission's science team revealed that the asteroid could be active, or…

Credit: ESA / ATG medialab CHEOPS (short for CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) consists of a space telescope developed and assembled by the University of Bern, in collaboration with the University of Geneva (UNIGE), and…

Credit: (U.S. Navy/Released) WASHINGTON -- Early returns from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's camera on NASA's latest mission to study the Sun's corona revealed on Dec. 4 a star more complex than ever imagined. NRL's…

Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is just days away from selecting the site where the spacecraft will snag a sample from asteroid Bennu. After a lengthy and challenging process, the team is…

Credit: NASA The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft, which has flown closer to the Sun than any mission before, has found new evidence of the origins of the solar wind. NASA's Parker Solar Probe was launched in August 2018. Its first results…