“Perfect” Launch Sends NASA’s Perseverance Rover on Seven-Month Journey to Mars
Not obstacles, not complexity — not even a worldwide pandemic — could keep NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover from blasting off on its historic mission…
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New Technique Makes It Easier, Cheaper, and Faster to Analyze Precious Antarctic Micrometeorites
The composition of Antarctic micrometeorites and other tiny but precious rocks such as those from space missions — is really hard to analyze without some…
Perseverance “Phones Home” – Next Stop Confirmed: Mars!
Today’s final critical milestone — acquisition of signal — has been achieved. In essence, Perseverance has phoned home to let NASA know it’s officially on…
Liftoff! NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Launches From Cape Canaveral Aboard Atlas V Rocket
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July…
Alpha Mission: First ESA Astronaut to Ride a Dragon to Space
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet has officially been assigned to the second operational flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, launching in spring 2021 from Cape Canaveral,…
NASA Selects Astronauts to Fly on SpaceX Crew-2 Mission
NASA and its international partners have assigned crew members for Crew-2, which will be the second operational SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space…
MIT Is Going to Mars to Make Oxygen From Martian Air: With Perseverance and a Little MOXIE
Led by MIT researchers, one of the experiments aboard the next mission to the Red Planet aims to generate oxygen from Martian air. On July…
From Comet NEOWISE to Comet Interceptor [Video]
Discovered in March 2020, Comet NEOWISE became visible to the naked eye in July, gifting observers in the northern hemisphere with one of the most…
Flight Over Jezero Crater on Mars – The NASA 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing Site
This video shows Jezero crater, the landing site of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on the Red Planet, based on images from ESA’s Mars…
“The Last of Its Kind” – Ancient Globular Cluster Torn Apart by the Milky Way’s Gravity 2 Billion Years Ago
“Stellar archeology” reveals a star stream composed of the remnants of an ancient globular cluster that was torn apart by the Milky Way’s gravity 2…
Occupants Check Into NASA’s “Robot Hotel” Aboard the Space Station
Storage is just as important aboard the International Space Station as it is on Earth. While the space station is about the size of a…
Cosmic Mystery: Integral High-Energy Space Observatory Detected a Unique Fast Radio Burst From a Dead Star in Our Galaxy
ESA’s Integral helps unravel origin of Fast Radio Bursts A global collaboration of telescopes including ESA’s Integral high-energy space observatory has detected a unique mix…
Out of This World: USGS Astrogeology Maps to Guide Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission
When you’re planning to explore someplace new, it’s always a good idea to bring a map so you can avoid dangerous terrain. This is true…
Take an Unprecedented Look Into “Central Engine” Powering a Massive Solar Flare
An international research team has presented a new look inside the “central engine” of a solar flare accompanied by an eruption, revealing an enormous electric…
Incredible Science of NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Captured in New Video
With a targeted launch date of July 30, 2020, the next robotic scientist NASA is sending to the Red Planet has big ambitions. Scheduled to…
Astrophysicist Investigates: Possibility of Life Below the Surface of Mars
A rover expected to explore below the surface of Mars in 2022 has the potential to provide more insights The findings published in Scientific Reports,…
New Calculation of Hubble’s Constant and Age of Universe Using 50 Galaxies
Study led by a University of Oregon physicist reconfigures a distance-calculation technique built around empirical observations. Using known distances of 50 galaxies from Earth to…
Watch Live Coverage of NASA Astronauts’ Return from Space Station on SpaceX Commercial Crew Test Flight
NASA will provide live coverage of activities leading up to, during, and following the return of the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 test flight with the agency’s…