The silhouette of US engineer and NASA astronaut Megan McArthur is seen past the NASA logo in the Webb Auditorium at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2022. Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP ...

MRO used a special maneuver that rolls the spacecraft over 120 degrees. This enhances the power of SHARAD, which is MRO’s ...

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 ...

ON EARTH. THE COUNTDOWN IS ON. ON JULY 30TH, NASA WILL LAUNCH ITS NICE MISSION. NASA AND THE INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANIZATION ISRO HAVE BEEN WORKING FOR OVER TEN YEARS TOGETHER TO BUILD THIS ...

A collaboration between NASA and small aerospace company Aloft Sensing has produced a compact radar system capable of detecting minute changes in Earth’s surface. The instrument, called HALE InSAR, is ...

A stadium-size asteroid tumbled harmlessly past Earth this month as a powerful NASA radar system watched. The new observations helped nail down the asteroid's size, as it had been too far away for ...

EDWARDS, Calif. NASA is evaluating a compact L-Band synthetic aperture radar for potential use on unmanned aircraft. The sensor detects and measures small changes in the Earth’s surface of geophysical ...

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The Deep Space Network's Goldstone planetary radar recently observed asteroids 2024 MK and 2011 UL21 as they safely passed by Earth. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern ...

WASHINGTON — Using data from a NASA radar that flew aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists have detected ice deposits near the moon’s north pole. NASA’s Mini-SAR instrument, a lightweight ...