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NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Unveils Jupiter’s Deep Mysteries
On July 10, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s famous “Great Red Spot” than ever before, capturing images of the ancient and gargantuan storm from only 5,600 miles away as it skimmed over...
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NASA’s Intrepid Mars Rover, Opportunity, Is Destined for Risky Mission
After 13 years and over 27 miles exploring the dry sea bed of Mars’ Meridiani Planum, NASA’s record-shattering rover Opportunity is still going. Originally slated for a 90-day tour of Mars,...
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NASA’s 40-year Voyage Continues
Four decades ago, NASA launched two robotic spacecraft, Voyagers 1 and 2, on a mission to cruise by the giant planets of the outer solar system on sweeping trajectories that would ultimately carry them...
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40 Years With the Voyager Spacecraft: Earth’s Most Distant Explorers Are...
When NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft left Earth in 1977, they had a mission that was possible only at that very moment in human history. The spacecraft were headed toward two of the outer planets of...
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Cassini’s Swan Song: Greatest Hits of the Saturn System
On September 15, NASA’s flagship robotic explorer, Cassini, will plummet into Saturn’s atmosphere in a fiery burn-up, ending a thirteen-year career of exploring Saturn and its host of remarkable moons....
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Cassini Spacecraft Prepares For A Fiery Farewell In Saturn’s Atmosphere
After 13 years in orbit around Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is about to plunge itself into the planet’s atmosphere and disintegrate. NASA decided to put an end to the mission on Friday because the...
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NASA’s InSight Now on Track For a Look Inside Mars
Space fans are well familiar with the robotic landers and rovers sent to explore Mars, packed with the routine cameras, rock drills, soil scoopers and spectroscopes that we have come to expect from...
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Why Is NASA Checking Out This Asteroid?
On September 22, a spaceship visited Earth—NASA can confirm that it wasn’t alien property. It was NASA’s own OSIRIS-REx probe, swinging by Earth in a gravitational “slingshot” maneuver designed to...
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You Can Take a Virtual Stroll on Mars, Thanks to Google and NASA
Humans trekking around Mars just became more realistic. It’s not reality quite yet, but a new virtual reality experience released by Google in partnership with NASA, called Access Mars, is a step in...
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Rendezvous With an Interstellar Traveler
In October, astronomers discovered that our solar system has been visited by an interstellar traveler. It’s not a spaceship — because that would be truly huge news — but a natural object: a 500-foot...
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Putting an Ear to the Rumbling Universe
An ambitious space mission is in the works that promises to reveal extraordinary unseen wonders of the universe. Unseen, literally; the mission, named LISA, is an instrument designed to detect not...
View ArticleNASA’s Time-Lapse Video: View of a Breathing Earth
For this post-Thanksgiving week, I’d like to suggest a remarkable video produced over two decades by NASA scientists. Satellites monitored populations of plant life on land and oceans, mapping...
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Mars’ Mysterious Dark Streaks May Not Be Flowing Water After All
If you recall a 2015 announcement by NASA celebrating the discovery of liquid water on Mars seeping down dusty slopes in dark streaks, you may remember a hubbub of excitement over the possibility of...
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The Real News Is That NASA Found That Eighth Planet Using Artificial...
NASA’s Kepler mission announced in December the discovery of an eighth planet orbiting Kepler 90, a sun-like star located about 2,500 light years from Earth. The discovery is noteworthy not only for...
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NASA’s InSight Lander Prepares to Probe Unseen Regions of Mars
NASA’s next Mars mission, InSight — designed to probe unseen depths on the Red Planet — has passed its latest check up and is readying for a spring launch. The lander passed the crucial test of...
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Flurry of Exoplanets Found Outside the Milky Way: You Won’t Believe How Many...
Researchers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have announced the discovery of a huge assortment of extrasolar planets ranging in size from Earth’s moon to the planet Jupiter. An extrasolar planet,...
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We’ll Find A Planet Like Earth in the Next Decade, Say Astronomers
The hunt for exoplanets has mostly been an exercise in counting pale, barely distinguishable dots spinning anonymously in space — until now. New and soon-to-come telescopes will have the ability to...
View ArticleNASA Launches Advanced Weather Satellite for Western US
NASA launched another of the world’s most advanced weather satellites on Thursday, this time to safeguard the western U.S. The GOES-S satellite thundered toward orbit aboard an Atlas V rocket, slicing...
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Cassini May Be Gone, But The Adventure Continues
Five months after the Cassini spacecraft’s fiery burnup in Saturn’s atmosphere, the mission continues to make remarkable discoveries about the gas giant planet and its entourage of fascinating moons. A...
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Coming Soon to A Planet Near You: Live High Definition Video From Mars
Nothing conveys the excitement of space exploration like pictures from another planet. Now NASA is planning to go one better than pictures. The space agency is aiming to launch a probe carrying a...
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