Science Mission Directorate

NASA’s AWE Completes Mission to Study Earth’s Effect on Space Weather

On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection ...
Science Daily

Jupiter’s lightning may be 100x more powerful than Earth’s

Jupiter’s storms aren’t just gigantic — they may unleash lightning far more powerful than anything on Earth. Using NASA’s Juno spacecraft, scientists discovered that some lightning bolts on the gas ...
BBC Sky at Night Magazine on MSN

There are hundreds of moons near Earth. These are the weirdest, strangest of them all

There are hundreds of moons in our patch of space. Some are tiny, some huge; some neatly spherical, some potato-shaped. Some ...