Asteroids as Seen From Mars; A Curiosity Rover First
A new image from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is the first ever from the surface of Mars to show an asteroid, and it shows two: Ceres and Vesta. These two […]
A new image from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is the first ever from the surface of Mars to show an asteroid, and it shows two: Ceres and Vesta. These two […]
The Gerald A. Soffen Memorial Fund is pleased to announce the first of two 2014 Travel Grant application opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing studies in fields of space […]
JPL Request for Proposal to Model Europa Plumes (URL: https://acquisition.jpl.nasa.gov/bizops/) Recent Hubble Space Telescope (HST) detection of anomalous concentrations of hydrogen and oxygen at Europa could potentially be due to […]
On April 20, MESSENGER completed its 3,000th orbit of Mercury and moved closer to the planet than any spacecraft has been before, dropping to an altitude of 199 kilometers (123.7 […]
Ground controllers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., have confirmed that NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft impacted the surface of the moon, as […]
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position at Lowell Observatory to work on the physical characterization of near‐Earth objects. This position will be co-supervised by Drs. Nicholas Moskovitz and Will Grundy. The initial appointment is for one year with an automatic extension to two years in the case of satisfactory progress. Extension to three years may be possible depending on the availability of additional funding. The position is expected to be split with 80% of the time dedicated to the main program and 20% for research of the postdoc’s choice. The start date is negotiable, but the preference would be for late summer 2014. This position is funded by a NASA Near-Earth Object Observations grant and comes with a competitive salary with full benefits. Funding is available for computer resources, attending conferences and observing […]
Applications are now being accepted for two Postdoctoral Research Associates, funded through the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) and the Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and […]
Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a star where liquid water […]
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has documented the formation of a small icy object within the rings of Saturn that may be a new moon, and may also provide clues to the […]
In its sixth Martian winter, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity now has cleaner solar arrays than in any Martian winter since its first on the Red Planet, in 2005. Cleaning […]
Scientists using NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover are eyeing a rock layer surrounding the base of a small butte, called “Mount Remarkable,” as a target for investigating with tools on the […]
Researchers and Developers, Zybek has completed its development of lunar and celestial body simulants for NASA-MSFC. They have 26 tons of Mare type (JSC2), 4 tons of Highlands type (LHT), […]
Capital Science Evening – Old Moon, New Moon Carnegie Institution for Science Tuesday, April 22, 2014 from 6:45 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT) Washington, DC Registration is free. Dr. Maria […]
The Planetary Geographic Information System (GIS)/Data Specialist will work in a new Planetary Science research group led by Edwin Kite in the University of Chicago’s Department of Geophysical Sciences. The central objective of […]
Registration is now open for the 5th Annual Lunar and Small Bodies Graduate Conference (LunGradCon 2014) to be held on Saturday and Sunday, July 19-20, 2014 at the NASA Ames Research Center […]
Applications are invited to undertake a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship in Planetary Geomorphology with the Earth and Planetary Group at Trinity College, Dublin. Details available at: http://earthandplanetary.wordpress.com/post-doctoral-opportunities/ Mary Bourke Trinity College
Images taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on April 2 and April 3 include bright spots, which might be due to the Sun glinting off a rock or cosmic rays […]
Observers from the Atlantic coast across the Americas to the far side of the Pacific Ocean will be able to observe a total lunar eclipse on Monday night, 14-15 April […]
NASA’s team that will conduct the first U.S. mission to collect samples from an asteroid has been given the go-ahead to begin building the spacecraft, flight instruments and ground system, […]
As NASA’s Cassini mission approaches its 10th anniversary at Saturn, its team members back here on Earth are already looking ahead to an upcoming phase. Starting in late 2016, the […]