Study Finds Widespread Land Losses from Gulf Oil Spill Dramatic shoreline loss is revealed in new NASA/USGS maps of Louisiana wetlands where the coastline was heavily coated with oil during the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.Read more
Microthrusters Achieve Success on ESA's LISA Pathfinder The super-precise JPL thruster system has met all its mission goals on the LISA Pathfinder mission.Read more
First GRACE Follow-On Satellite Completes Construction The first of two satellites has been completed for a follow-on to NASA's GRACE mission.Read more
Fleet of Hurricane-Tracking SmallSats Set to Launch NASA is set to launch its first Earth science small-satellite constellation, which will help improve hurricane intensity, track and storm surge forecasts, on Dec. 12.Read more
Space Telescopes Pinpoint Elusive Brown Dwarf Two NASA space telescopes jointly observed a microlensing event, when a distant star brightens due to the gravitational field of at least one foreground cosmic object.Read more