NASA’s Perseverance Rover Just 20 Days From Mars Landing
Seven minutes of harrowing descent to the Red Planet is in the not-so-distant future for the agency’s Mars 2020 mission. NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover…
Seven minutes of harrowing descent to the Red Planet is in the not-so-distant future for the agency’s Mars 2020 mission. NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover…
Rochester Institute of Technology scientists have developed new simulations of black holes with widely varying masses merging that could help power the next generation of…
The year 1986 was shaping up to be the most ambitious one yet for NASA’s Space Shuttle Program. The agency’s plans called for up to…
On May 10, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft will say farewell to asteroid Bennu and begin its journey back…
In September, a team led by astronomers in the United Kingdom announced that they had detected the chemical phosphine in the thick clouds of Venus….
Physicist Develops Software Solution to Measure Black Hole Stability Even if a black hole can be described with a mathematical model, it doesn’t mean it…
At NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, technicians from Orion prime contractor Lockheed Martin have welded together three cone-shaped panels on Orion’s crew module…
Before the Apollo era, the moon was thought to be dry as a desert due to the extreme temperatures and harshness of the space environment….
Scientists inferred Bennu’s sojourn in the inner Solar System at 1.75 million years. Last year NASA snagged a sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu,…
Rice-led study shows two distinct origins of life-essential element in present-day planet. Where did Earth’s nitrogen come from? Rice University scientists show one primordial source…
Precise measurements reveal that the exoplanets have remarkably similar densities, which provides clues about their composition. The red dwarf star PIST-1 is home to the…
The addition brings new capabilities to the network, which acts as an interplanetary switchboard, connecting us to missions at the Moon and far beyond. A…
Far below the gaseous atmospheric shroud on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, lies Kraken Mare, a sea of liquid methane. Cornell astronomers have estimated that the…
It was previously thought that collisions between galaxies would necessarily add to the activity of the massive black holes at their centers. However, researchers have…
Using a combination of telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have revealed a system consisting of six…
For the first time ever, a telecommunications satellite has used an iodine propellant to change its orbit around Earth. The small but potentially disruptive innovation…
The lives of planetary nebulae are often chaotic, from the death of their parent star to the scattering of its contents far out into space….
Ingenuity, a technology experiment, is preparing to attempt the first powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet. When NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars on…