Here are the People Who Will Ride NASA’s First Commercial Spacecraft
NASA has assigned the astronauts who will ride the first commercial capsules into orbit next year and bring human launches back to the U.S. SpaceX and Boeing are shooting for a test flight of their...
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Destination: Sun. NASA Launches Parker Solar Probe
Shields up! We are approaching the sun and will soon be zipping through its corona at 430,000 miles per hour, enduring blistering outside temperatures of up to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit and risking...
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You Won’t Believe What Happens on Jupiter’s Moon to Make Volcanos
NASA’s Juno spacecraft may have discovered another volcano on Jupiter’s moon Io, adding to an already impressive list of known active volcanoes there. Since the Voyager spacecraft, and later Galileo,...
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Lunar Ice and Martian Mud: Whetting Our Appetite For Extraterrestrial Water?
The last few weeks have seen two exciting announcements in the search for extraterrestrial water. On August 20 NASA announced the confirmation of water ice on the Moon, reinforcing our understanding...
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Who Caused The Mysterious Leak At The International Space Station?
Russian officials are saying that a tiny leak at the International Space Station was likely caused by a human hand. Now, they’re trying to figure out who did it, why they did it and whether it happened...
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As the Dust Settles on Mars, Can NASA’s Robotic Explorers Forge Ahead?
Three months after the first stirrings of what became an epic global storm on Mars, the winds have died down and the dust that filled the atmosphere is settling. Now, like a scene from the opening...
View ArticleNASA Satellite Will Measure Ice Changes to Assess Sea Level Rise
A NASA satellite designed to precisely measure changes in Earth’s ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice and vegetation was launched into polar orbit from California early Saturday. A Delta 2 rocket carrying...
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Someone’s Kid is Gonna Name the Next Mars Rover. Why Not Yours?
Do you know the name of the next robotic explorer to set down on the planet Mars? Better still, do you want to name it? If you’re a student age 18 or younger, you have a shot at it. If you’re...
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Voyager 2 Heads Beyond Our Solar System
Get ready. The human race is about to go Interstellar! Again…. On the heels of Voyager 1’s historic 2012 breakout from our solar system, its twin, Voyager 2, has begun to detect signs that it too may...
View ArticleNASA Spacecraft Sets Record for Closest Approach to Sun — And it’s Getting...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is now closer to the sun than any spacecraft has ever gotten. Parker on Monday surpassed the record of 26.6 million miles set by Helios-2 back in 1976. And it will keep...
View ArticleKepler Telescope Dead After Nearly a Decade of Finding Distant Worlds
NASA’s elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary. Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope’s demise Tuesday. Already well past its...
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NASA InSIGHT Spacecraft Set to Land on Mars Nov. 26
After traveling 75 million miles since its launch last May, NASA’s InSIGHT spacecraft is scheduled to land on Mars on Monday, November 26 around noon, Pacific Time. NASA TV will cover the adventure as...
View ArticleHow to Watch NASA’s InSight Land on Mars
After cruising through space for about seven months, the time has arrived for NASA’s Mars InSight mission to settle down on the Red Planet and get to work. Read More About InSight There Are Earthquakes...
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WATCH: Live Coverage of Mars InSight Landing
UPDATE 7:30 p.m., Mon. Phew! Took a little while but we have word now that InSight’s solar panels are open and collecting sunlight. This solar-powered robot is ready for action. Aaah…soaking up the...
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InSight Affirmation: People Still Go Gaga for Mars
“What did you think of the Mars landing today?” “Amazing.” “Awesome!” “Never gets old.” A crowd of several hundred people chose to spend their midday Monday at Chabot Space & Science Center to...
View ArticleSpaceX and Blue Origin Scrub Rocket Launches, Dashing Hopes of a 4-Launch Day
Updated at 9:40 a.m. ET Weather and other delays marred what had been anticipated as a banner day for space launches Tuesday, as both SpaceX and Blue Origin were forced to postpone launches that had...
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New Horizons Kicks Off 2019 With Ultima Thule Encounter
It was a happy New Year for NASA. Only minutes into 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft made another historic achievement in space exploration: a fly-by of the most distant object ever visited, the...
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Moon Missions Abound! Reasons to Be Excited About Lunar Exploration
It’s a year to celebrate the moon. Fifty years after astronauts first set foot on the lunar surface, our curiosity and passion for exploring our celestial neighbor is alive and well. Nearly a hundred...
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How Did Life Form 4 Billion Years Ago? NASA Thinks It Might Know
Scientists may have rediscovered a long-lost recipe from Earth’s primordial cookbook for life, one that takes chemical ingredients that were available in the oceans of Earth’s youth, adds heat, and...
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We’re Sending a Helicopter to Mars
Get ready for your next big Martian adventure! It’s not a Hollywood epic about the stranding and rescue of a lone astronaut, but a real-world expedition: the Mars 2020 rover mission. And NASA’s newest...
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