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Science Policy & Funding

News 3 August 2018

U.S. Senate Reviews NASA’s Science Priorities

The search for life, developing flagship telescopes, partnering with the private sector, and maintaining Earth science programs should be top priorities for the space agency, say witnesses.

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Planetary Sciences

Feature 1 August 2018

The Kepler Revolution

The Kepler Space Telescope will soon run out of fuel and end its mission. Here are nine fundamental discoveries about planets aided by Kepler in the 9 years since its launch.

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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology

News 31 July 2018

Two Active Volcanoes in Japan May Share a Magma Source

Evidence collected following the 2011 eruption of Japan’s Shinmoedake volcano suggests that the powerful event affected the behavior of an active caldera nearby.

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Science Policy & Funding

News 26 July 2018

What Can NASA Do to Better Protect the Planets It Probes?

A new report found that decades-old policies, unclear strategies, and regulatory gaps may create future problems for the agency. Here are four ways to head off these problems.

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Climate Change

News 26 July 2018

Why Are Siberian Temperatures Plummeting While the Arctic Warms?

The answer involves the intricacies of stratospheric circulation, which, if better represented in climate models, could help predict extreme weather events in Siberia and elsewhere.

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Planetary Sciences

News 17 July 2018

Ten New Moons Discovered Around Jupiter

The newly plotted moons of Jupiter include one “oddball” that orbits in the wrong direction and may be the remnant of a head-on collision.

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Planetary Sciences

News 29 June 2018

Are We Prepared for an Asteroid Headed Straight to Earth?

A century after an asteroid crashed into Tunguska, Siberia, experts discuss the current lineup of missions to study asteroids and mitigate future disasters should another object from space hit Earth.

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Biogeosciences

News 13 June 2018

Emperor Penguins’ Huddles Change in Response to Weather

How quickly the penguins huddled when weather worsened provided clues about their feeding success and how climate change may alter the Antarctic biosphere, according to scientists.

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Planetary Sciences

News 4 June 2018

Solar Flare Caused Increased Oxygen Loss from Mars’s Atmosphere

Measurements by a Mars-orbiting spacecraft indicated heating and chemistry changes in the planet’s atmosphere following an extreme solar eruption last year.

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Space Science & Space Physics

News 24 May 2018

Seeing Green: A Stratospheric View of the 2017 Total Eclipse

Airborne telescopes gave scientists a sky-high view of the 2017 Great American Eclipse as they took measurements that are difficult to obtain from the ground.

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