With a look back at 2024, NASA is celebrating its many innovative and inspiring accomplishments this year including for the first time, landing new science and technology on the Moon with an American ...
As a NASA science flight was flying over the Greenland ice sheet this spring, a surprise popped up on a specialty radar: a hidden Cold War city more than 100 feet beneath the ice. In April 2024 ...
A crater on Mars has a bright patch of ice. It's the second time in over a decade that the crater and ice has been observed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of ...
A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior. When the rover rolled its 899-kilogram (1,982-pound) body over the rock back ...
With the arrival of winter comes a seasonal hazard that's slippery, invisible and deadly – black ice. Black ice, which is actually transparent, is the term for the thin coating of ice that can ...
Mars has two permanent ice caps made mostly of frozen water at each pole. During the colder, darker part of the year in the northern hemisphere, Nerozzi said, carbon dioxide condenses from the ...