Nancy Atkinson
Perseverance Watches Carefully as Ingenuity Lifts Off for its 47th Flight
In some of the best footage yet, the Perseverance rover has taken new video of the Ingenuity helicopter taking off…
Potentially Active Volcanoes Have Been Found on Venus
Using archival radar images taken in the 1990s by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft, scientists have found evidence of recent active volcanism…
NASA and Axiom Space Do a Partial Reveal of the Spacesuit That Will be Worn on the Moon
NASA and Axiom Space Inc. provided a first, limited look at the new spacesuits that will be worn by the…
It's Time to Start Planning Your 2023/2024 Eclipse Adventures
Remember how exciting it was in 2017 when a total solar eclipse crossed the United States? We're in for two…
JWST Sees So Many Galaxies, and It's Just Getting Started
Hubble Space Telescope's Deep Field revealed thousands of galaxies in a seemingly empty spot in the sky. Now, the James…
Mars Has Bizarre “Swiss Cheese” Terrain. You can Thank Water, Carbon Dioxide and 500,000 years of Climate History for That
Seen from space, regions of Mars around the south pole have a bizarre, pitted "Swiss cheese" appearance. These formations come…
NASA Restores a Spacecraft by Turning it Off and Then On Again
When faced with a potentially mission-ending problem with NASA’s 15-year-old Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, engineers performed a time-honored procedure…
A Helicopter is Going to Titan. Could an Airplane be Next?
What are the hydrocarbon seas on Titan really like? While the upcoming Dragonfly helicopter mission to Saturn’s hazy and frigid…
Curiosity Sees Spectacular Crepuscular Rays in Martian Clouds
NASA's Curiosity Rover usually looks down at the ground, studying nearby rocks and craters. But sometimes, it looks up and…
Just Dropped: New Close-up Images of Io from Juno, With More to Come
On March 1, 2023, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew by Jupiter's moon Io, coming within 51,500 km (32,030 miles) of the…