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Three Current Space Missions You May Not Know About
With all of the attention grabbed by Pluto in recent months, it’s easy to lose sight of just how much exploration is actually taking place across the solar system. Lately, most of the news has come...
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The Cassini Spacecraft Gets Set for a Grand Finale
On August 17, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made its final close flyby of Dione, one of Saturn’s fascinating moons, sending us the highest-resolution pictures of its surface to date. And though this isn’t...
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NASA Says Liquid Water Probably Flows on Mars
Data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provides “the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars,” NASA announced on Monday. You can watch the video replay...
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How Do We Stop Space Missions From Contaminating Mars?
As soon as NASA announced finding evidence of liquid water on Mars last month, speculation erupted that scientists may be able to answer the age-old question: Is there life on Mars? Technically, we...
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Where Did Mars’ Atmosphere Go–And Is Earth Next?
Last week, NASA’s Mars Atmospheric and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission identified the smoking gun in the whodunit mystery of what happened to Mars’ once much warmer, thicker, and more Earth-like...
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Who Will Become NASA’s Next Solar System ‘Discovery Idol’?
In what may not be unlike a space-geek’s version of American Idol, NASA has judged five proposals for interplanetary missions worthy of moving onto a final round of competition for selection under its...
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NASA Seeks New Astronauts; Do You Have The Right Stuff?
On Monday, NASA started accepting applications for its new class of astronauts. Applying is simple: Just log in to USAjobs.gov, search for “astronaut,” and upload your resume and references. The job...
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Move Over Pluto, Dwarf Planet Ceres Gets an Extreme Close-Up
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft recently made its closest flyby of Ceres, sending back the most detailed views of its surface. Ceres is the largest object in the Main Asteroid Belt located between the orbits of...
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Millions of Miles from the Sun, NASA Spacecraft Still Runs on Solar
NASA’s Juno spacecraft, bound for Jupiter, passed a milestone on January 13 when it reached a distance of 493 million miles from the sun. That’s about five times the distance between the Earth and sun....
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NASA’s Record Holding Space Missions
When it comes to space exploration, there have never been as many exciting reports from space as there are right now. And we’re not only talking about amazing celestial body discoveries, but also...
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Scott Kelly Reflects on His Year Off the Planet
“I have taken a lot of pictures because I’ve been up here for a long time,” NASA astronaut Scott Kelly said during a recent press conference from the International Space Station. “I’ve definitely taken...
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WATCH: Astronauts Head Home After a Year in Space
Here’s a fun fact about long-duration space flight: There’s no shower on board the International Space Station. “It’s kind of like I’ve been in the woods camping for a year,” astronaut Scott Kelly...
View ArticleWhere, When and How to See Today’s Total Solar Eclipse
You’ve got one chance to watch 2016’s singular total solar eclipse. It’s only visible in Southeast Asia, but good news Area folks: you can watch the event via the Exploratorium’s live feed above. A...
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NASA’s InSight Mission Will Put Stethoscope to Mars’ Heartbeat
NASA’s InSight mission to Mars is well worth waiting two more years for. InSight will be the first lander equipped to probe beneath the Martian surface, conducting experiments aimed at finding out what...
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What Mysterious Forces Are Creating Mountains on Titan?
In the winding-down period of its more than 12-year mission exploring the Saturn system, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has spotted the tallest mountain of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, a peak in the...
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Despite Hiccup, Kepler Discoveries Continue to Dazzle
Seventy-five million miles out in space is not where you want to be when an emergency crops up, but that’s exactly where NASA’s Kepler spacecraft was earlier this week when the red lights and sirens...
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What’s Inside? NASA Spacecraft to Probe Beneath Jupiter’s Surface
NASA’s farthest-flung solar-powered robotic probe, Juno, has finally crossed over into Jupiter territory, where the gravitational attraction of the gas giant planet is stronger than the sun’s. Juno is...
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On This 4,400 Degree Exoplanet, It’s Always Day and Always Night
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has recently mapped the surface temperatures of a “super-Earth,” giving us a rare glimpse into the environmental and weather conditions on a distant extrasolar planet....
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Finally! NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover Will Look for Life on the Red Planet
NASA’s next robot to crawl across the surface of Mars — the Mars 2020 rover — recently crossed a major milestone when it received approval to launch in the summer of 2020, for a February 2021 landing....
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Feds Reluctant to Fund ET Search, Says ‘Contact’ Scientist in New Book
Berkeley scientist Jill Tarter was a key figure in launching the legendary program known as SETI. Her determination inspired Jodie Foster’s character in the 1997 film, Contact. In the first biography...
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