PASADENA, California, March 17 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * NASA's EZIE Launches on Mission to Study Earth's Electrojets Under the nighttime California sky, NASA's EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:43 p.m. PDT on March 14. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, carrying NASA's EZIE spacecraft into orbit. Credit: SpaceX Taking off from Vandenberg Spa  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * New Modeling Assesses Age of Next Target Asteroid for NASA's Lucy Although NASA's Lucy spacecraft's upcoming encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson is primarily a mission rehearsal for later asteroid encounters, a new paper suggests that this small, main belt asteroid may have some surprises of its own. New modeling indicates that Donaldjohanson may have been formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent aster  more