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Flying Formation -- Around the Moon at 3,600 Mph
March 27, 2012 — The act of two or more aircraft flying together in a disciplined, synchronized manner is one of the cornerstones of military aviation, as well as just about any organized air show. But as amazing as ... > full story -
Cassini to Make Closest Pass Yet Over Enceladus South Pole
March 26, 2012 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft is preparing to make its lowest pass yet over the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, where icy particles and water vapor spray out in glittering jets. The ... > full story -
Mars-Bound NASA Craft Adjusts Path, Tests Instruments
March 26, 2012 — NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, halfway to Mars, adjusted its flight path March 26, 2012 for delivery of the one-ton rover Curiosity to the surface of Mars in ... > full story -
NASA GRAIL Returns First Student-Selected Moon Images
March 22, 2012 — One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera. Fourth grade students from the Emily Dickinson ... > full story -
Geologists Discover New Class of Landform -- On Mars
March 22, 2012 — An odd, previously unseen landform could provide a window into the geological history of Mars, according to new research by geologists. They call the structures periodic bedrock ... > full story -
Dawn Sees New Surface Features on Giant Asteroid Vesta
March 21, 2012 — NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed unexpected details on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. New images and data highlight the diversity of Vesta's surface and reveal unusual geologic features, ... > full story -
Mercury's Surprising Core and Landscape Curiosities
March 21, 2012 — Scientists have found that Mercury's core, already suspected to occupy a greater fraction of the planet's interior than do the cores of Earth, Venus, or Mars, is even larger than anticipated. They ... > full story -
Cassini Sees Saturn Stressing out Enceladus
March 20, 2012 — Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have, for the first time, enabled scientists to correlate the spraying of jets of water vapor from fissures on Saturn's moon Enceladus with the way Saturn's ... > full story -
Super-Earth Unlikely Able to Transfer Life to Other Planets
March 20, 2012 — While scientists believe conditions suitable for life might exist on the so-called "super-Earth" in the Gliese 581 system, it's unlikely to be transferred to other planets within that solar ... > full story -
Cosmic Rays Alter Chemistry of Lunar Ice, May Create Building Blocks of Life
March 19, 2012 — Space scientists report they have quantified levels of radiation on the moon's surface from galactic cosmic ray (GCR) bombardment that over time causes chemical changes in water ice and can create ... > full story -
NASA's Goddard, Glenn Centers Look to Lift Space Astronomy out of the Fog
March 13, 2012 — A fogbank is the least useful location for a telescope, yet today's space observatories effectively operate inside one. That's because Venus, Earth and Mars orbit within a vast dust cloud produced by ... > full story -
Cassini Captures New Images of Icy Moon
March 13, 2012 — New raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea, were taken on March 10, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This was a relatively distant flyby with a close-approach distance of ... > full story
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