Countdown To Mars: Launch of the NASA 2020 Perseverance Rover
Team with NASA to send off the Perseverance rover to Mars — from the convenience of your own home. The mission launches from Cape Canaveral,…
Team with NASA to send off the Perseverance rover to Mars — from the convenience of your own home. The mission launches from Cape Canaveral,…
NASA’s next rover to the Red Planet is slated to launch no earlier than July 30. These highlights will get you up to speed on…
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, set to launch in August 2022, will travel to its target in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter under the…
The destination of ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defense – a tiny asteroid moonlet – has finally received its official name. After years of informal…
The mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid is pivoting from planning the details to building real pieces of the spacecraft puzzle. Psyche, the NASA mission…
Data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission, managed by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, fuels the search for these not-quite-planets-but-not-quite-stars. With the help of citizen scientists, astronomers…
KyotoU’s new Seimei telescope detects enormous ‘superflare’ on a nearby star The cold, dark chaos of space is filled with mystery. Fortunately, the ways in…
Now that the lander’s robotic arm has helped the mole get underground, it will resume science activities that have been on hold. NASA’s InSight lander…
University of Warwick-led team discovers first exposed core of a planet Highly unusual planet found in the Neptunian Desert, where such massive objects are rarely…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was at the right place at the right time to capture a unique view of comet NEOWISE on July 5, 2020….
A Gravity Assist Primer The “gravity assist” concept has proven fundamental to exploring our “back yard” — the solar system. The technique has even been…
Under consideration to become the next Discovery Program mission, VERITAS would reveal the inner workings of Earth’s mysterious “twin.” Imagine Earth. Now fill the skies…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has been attached to the top of the rocket that will send it toward the Red Planet this summer. Encased in…
Catch the comet in the morning sky until July 11, after which you can find it just after sunset until mid-August. A comet visiting from…
Later this summer, NASA is launching the Mars Perseverance Rover to the Red Planet with the Mars 2020 Mission. The rover is loaded with equipment to search for signs…
NASA has selected four U.S. small businesses to mature a range of technologies for sustainable exploration of the Moon under the Artemis program. Through Artemis,…
After more than a year in a clay-rich region, Curiosity is making a mile-long journey around some deep sand so that it can explore higher…
Caltech researchers use deep learning and supercomputing to identify Nyx, a product of a long-ago galaxy merger. Astronomers can go their whole careers without finding…