NASA’s Psyche Mission to Explore a Metal-Rich Asteroid Passes Key Milestone
Now just a year and a half from launch, the mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid will soon begin assembling and testing the spacecraft. NASA’s…
Now just a year and a half from launch, the mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid will soon begin assembling and testing the spacecraft. NASA’s…
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…
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…
A new study tracing the sources of carbon dioxide, the most significant human-generated greenhouse gas, reveals the unexpectedly large influence of vegetation in urban environments….
The flying science laboratory takes to the skies after major maintenance and will soon prepare for the Convective Processes Experiment – Aerosols & Wind campaign….
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…
From visiting mission control to seeing where space robots are built, the interactive tour lets online users explore the historic space facility from anywhere in…
The spacecraft, which has been gathering data on the gas giant since July 2016, will become an explorer of the full Jovian system – Jupiter…
Slated to launch in October 2021, NASA’s Lucy mission will be the first space mission to study the Trojan asteroids, leftover building blocks of the solar system’s outer…
The heat probe hasn’t been able to gain the friction it needs to dig, but the mission has been granted an extension to carry on…
Audio gathered by the mission may not sound quite the same on Mars as it would to our ears on Earth. A new interactive online…
As the rover has continued to ascend Mount Sharp, it found distinctive benchlike rock formations. It’s been 3,000 Martian days, or sols, since Curiosity touched…
An international team of scientists may be close to detecting faint ripples in space-time that fill the universe. Pairs of black holes billions of times…
The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, which has started its approach to the Red Planet, will help answer the next logical question in Mars exploration. With…
The observatory will map the entire sky to study the rapid expansion of the universe after the Big Bang, the composition of young planetary systems,…
On a clear day, the towering peaks on Fogo, Santa Antão, and São Nicolau stand out amid the flatter islands of Cabo Verde (Cape Verde)….
What are some skywatching highlights in January 2021? Mark Earth’s closest approach to the Sun for the year, called perihelion, at the start of the…