A meteorite recovered immediately after its fall to Earth on July 16, 2024 is helping NASA scientists uncover new clues about ancient water, the chemical evolution of early asteroids, and ingredients that may have helped make life possible throughout the early solar system. This rapid recovery began when an amateur astronomer from New Jersey quickly
This view of the outer rim of Jezero Crater’s 150-meter-high rim was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance on May 15, 2025, day 1,505, or sol, of the rover’s mission to Mars. The brightly colored rocks exposed along the slope, running from the left center to the right center of the image, belong
“I didn’t sign up to try to measure a new record or anything like that,” said Matt Carnicle, a volunteer with the NASA-sponsored Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network, or CoCoRaHS, project. Carnicle measured a whopping 29.06 inches of rain on June 18, 2026, breaking an all-time 24-hour record for the state of Louisiana
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an exoplanet, hidden within one of the most intensively studied planetary systems in our Milky Way galaxy. The nearby young star Beta Pictoris was already known to host two giant planets: Beta Pictoris b, one of the first
Written by Alex Innanen, atmospheric scientist at York University, Toronto Ground planning date: Friday, July 10, 2026 Curiosity had a successful long weekend and started this week ready to explore some more. We have been moving fairly quickly through different mapped “units,” or different geological areas of interest, visiting a different one at each of
It’s still relatively early in the summer season in the Northern Hemisphere, but several parts of North America were stiflingly hot in mid-July. The latest provider of heat was a strong high-pressure ridge that remained in the upper atmosphere over the northern Rockies on the weekend of July 11-12, 2026. This pushed hot air toward