Monday’s single-sol plan included a marathon 45-meter drive (about 148 feet), which put us in position for two full sols of ...

Hubble 3D Model Over Earth in NASA's "Eyes on the Solar System" Feature Hubble is featured in NASA's "Eyes on the Solar System" interactive, which shows where it is currently located in its orbit ...

The Maine Farmers' Almanac began publishing Native American names for full moons in the 1930s, and these names are now widely known and used. According to this almanac, as the full moon in February, ...

Are Moon phases caused by shadows from Earth? No. The only time Earth’s shadow affects our view of the Moon is during a lunar eclipse.Generally, one half of the Moon ― the side facing the Sun ― is ...

The ZBOT-1 Experiment: Self-Pressurization & Jet Mixing The first experiment in the series was carried out on the station in the 2017-2018 timeframe. Figure 2 shows the ZBOT-1 hardware in the ...

Stars — they shimmer in the night sky, burning hot across the cosmos. But sometimes … they erupt. Enter: novae. In short, a nova is an outburst in a binary system, or system with two stars that ...

This image from Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) shows the star system Beta Pictoris. An edge-on disk of dusty debris generated by collisions between planetesimals (orange) dominates the view. A ...

Bradley Doorn grew up in his family’s trucking business, which hauled milk and animal feed across the sprawling plains of South Dakota. Home was Mitchell, a small town famous for its Corn Palace, ...

Sun–Climate Symposia, originally called SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) Science Team Meetings, have been held at a regular cadence since 1999 – before the launch of SORCE in 2003. These ...

The Next Full Moon is the Flower, Corn, or Corn Planting Moon; the Milk Moon; the Hare's Moon; and Vesak, Buddha Jayanti, or Buddha Purnima. The next full Moon will be on Thursday morning, May 23, ...

The Maine Farmers' Almanac began publishing "Indian" names for full Moons in the 1930s and these names are now widely known and used. According to this almanac, as the full Moon in April the tribes of ...

Climate change may strengthen vertical wind shear in jet streams, increasing aircraft turbulence. Jet streams are fast-moving belts of wind that travel around the planet in wavy, meandering paths. In ...