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NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft on Approach for a Historic Encounter
Artist’s concept of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft at Ceres. (Dawn/NASA) On March 6, NASA’s Dawn will become the first spacecraft to encounter a dwarf planet when it arrives at Ceres, the first (and largest)...
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NASA’s Kepler Mission Reincarnated
Artist illustration of the Kepler spacecraft. (Ames Research Center, JPL-Caltech, T. Pyle/NASA) Space exploration has suffered its share of setbacks and disappointments over the decades, but few of...
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2015 Picks Up Where 2014 Record Heat Left Off
Corn plants struggle to survive in a drought-stricken farm field near Oakton, Indiana. The corn and soybean belt in the middle of the nation is experiencing one of the worst droughts in more than five...
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Dawn Arrives at Ceres, Makes History
Artist’s concept of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft arriving at Ceres. (Dawn/NASA) Early this morning, at about 4:39 AM Pacific Time, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft arrived at Ceres, making history as it swung into...
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Cassini Detects Signs of Conditions Friendly to Life
This cutaway illustration of Saturn’s moon Enceladus shows a subsurface ocean with hydrothermal activity, where water interacts with heat deep inside the moon, and erupts through the surface in plumes...
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NASA’s MESSENGER Spacecraft: Preparing Its Farewell Message From Mercury
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft spiraling toward the surface of its 10-year study, planet Mercury. (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institute of Washington/NASA) When is the...
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More Exoplanet Thrills on the Horizon
Artist concept of Kepler 186f, an Earth-sized exoplanet within its star’s habitable zone. (NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech) Faint planets orbiting distant stars are by nature challenging to find,...
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NASA’s Most Recent Successes in the Search for Life-friendly Conditions on Mars
Curiosity’s self-portrait at “Mojave” on Mount Sharp. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) The 1964 science fiction classic, “Robinson Crusoe on Mars,” paraphrased an old adage, “Water is where you find it.” NASA’s...
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NASA Co-Discovers the Most Distant Extrasolar Planet Yet
Diagram of the Milky Way galaxy showing the distances to known extrasolar planets. (JPL-CalTech/NASA) We’ve recently discovered one of the most distant extrasolar planets known to date. Or rather,...
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NASA Spacecraft Closes in on a Summer Encounter With Pluto
Artist concept of New Horizons flyby of Pluto. (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute) Eighty-five years after its discovery in 1930, the distant and...
View ArticleOrion Spacecraft Splashes Down After High Orbit Test
NASA’s unmanned Orion spacecraft has successfully splashed down about 250 miles west of Baja California in the Pacific Ocean after a liftoff, two orbits and re-entry that lasted just under four and a...
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Evidence of Possible Long-Term Water on Mars
An outcrop of lake bed deposits captured by Curiosity’s MastCam in August, 2014 (MSL/NASA) On Monday, NASA announced some surprising results from its exploration of Gale Crater on Mars by the Mars...
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New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes up for Its Historic Fly-by of Pluto
Artist concept of New Horizons at the Pluto system. (NASA) Only 84 years after its discovery in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, it is the eve of our first-ever close-up look at everyone’s favorite dwarf...
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NASA Satellite Could Help Weather Forecasts, Drought Management
NASA’s SMAP satellite will capture microwave radiation from the Earth to measure soil moisture. (NASA) Thursday morning a rocket was scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Air Force Base on...
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NASA Mission in the Works to Explore the Ocean of Jupiter’s Moon Europa
A new mission of ocean exploration is in the works—but this one isn’t bound for any place on Earth. It’s a NASA spacecraft destined for a voyage to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, which, though only the...
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NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Reveals Mystery Lakes on Saturn’s Moon Titan
New observations of Saturn’s largest satellite, Titan, by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, paint a fresh picture of the striking similarities between the cold, distant moon and the Earth. Mysterious,...
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At Last! NASA Spacecraft to Capture a Close-Up of Pluto
Update: 3:42 p.m., July 13, 2015 NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has already resolved one of the key debates about Pluto: how big is it? The dwarf planet is 1,473 miles (2,370 kilometers) in diameter,...
View ArticleScientists Celebrate Successful Pluto Fly-By, Promise First Photos at 3 p.m. ET
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has survived its encounter with Pluto and carried out its scientific observations as planned, according to a message received from the spacecraft. New Horizons is now...
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Pluto and Charon’s First Portraits Do Not Disappoint
NASA has just released the first high resolution images from the New Horizons’ close encounter with Pluto, along with a few of the exciting discoveries made in the 24 hours since the probe first phoned...
View ArticlePluto or Bust: Possible Extended Mission for NASA’s New Horizons
July 14th was a fantastic ride. NASA’s New Horizons mission took us through the Pluto system on the adventure of a lifetime, an adventure that will continue to unfold for many months as the large batch...
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