News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

1. The Turbulent, High-Energy Sky Is Keeping NuSTAR Busy

   
   
   Like "things that go bump in the night," a few high-energy events in the universe have captured the attention of the NuSTAR telescope.

   
   
   
2. Warm Ocean Causing Most Antarctic Ice Shelf Mass Loss

   
   
   Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss, a new study by NASA and university researchers has found.

   
   
   
3. Mars Water-Ice Clouds Are Key to Odd Thermal Rhythm

   
   
   Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found that temperatures in the Martian atmosphere regularly rise and fall not just once each day, but twice.

   
   
   
4. Shining a Light on Cool Pools of Gas in the Galaxy

   
   
   The stuff of stars is not always easy to see. Thanks to the Herschel Space Observatory, invisible pools of gas in our galaxy are being mapped better than before.

   
   
   
5. Black Hole Naps Amidst Stellar Chaos

   
   
   NASA's NuSTAR space telescope has found evidence of a slumbering massive black hole in a galaxy bursting with new stars.