NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves into Development
NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving into development and testing in preparation for a 2016 launch.
NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves into Development
NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving into development and testing in preparation for a 2016 launch.
ARTEMIS Detects New Sources of Lunar Pickup Ions in Geomagnetic Tail
NLSI's DREAM team scientists identified new sources of lunar pickup ions using ARTEMIS in the geomagnetic tail
Astronaut Chris Hadfield performs "Space Oddity" onboard ISS
International Space Station Commander, Chris Hadfield, performs a revised version of David Bowies Space Oddity.
NASA and Amateur Radio Operators Piece Together the PhoneSat Picture
Cell phone photos sent from space were reconstructed by the Ames Phonesat Team with the help of multiple amateur radio operators around the world.
New Zooniverse project: Space Warps
We need your help to spot rare and exciting gravitational lenses in the distant Universe!
LADEE Passes Thermal Test
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Observatory completes Thermal-Vacuum testing at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
Dusty Plasma Effects in Comets: Expectations for Rosetta
The forthcoming Rosetta-Philae rendezvous and lander mission will provide a unique opportunity to study dusty plasma phenomena in a single comet, as it moves around the Sun.
Why LADEE Matters
In order to understand Earth's atmosphere, it is essential to study atmospheres under a range of conditions beyond Earth.
NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings
These findings could help scientists understand the nature of space rocks in the solar system at large.
NLSI Science Teams
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Electric Moon Jolts the Solar Wind
Unlike Earth, the Moon is not surrounded by a global magnetic field, so the Moon’s bow shock in the solar wind was a surprising discovery!
CAN-2 Announcement
Lunar Science Forum
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Did you know?
Water ice and other frozen volatiles are to be found in many shadowed craters near the lunar poles.
