How 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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Curiosity Drills Into Mars and Strikes Clay
While prospecting the slopes of Mount Sharp for evidence of Mars’ past watery climates, NASA’s Curiosity rover struck clay. If this doesn’t sound as worthy of a “Eureka!” as hitting the golden...
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This Asteroid Won’t Hit Earth, But It’s Coming Pretty Dang Close
Asteroids are out there, even if you can’t always see them. Want some naked-eye proof? It’s coming, in the form of a mountain of space rock named Apophis, for the Egyptian god of chaos; his task is to...
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Mars’ High Flying Camera Reveals Planet in Exquisite Detail
We have come a long way in our understanding of the planet Mars in the last few decades, and even the past several years. Once visible only as a reddish spark in the night sky, when all that humans had...
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Mars 2020 Spacecraft Shaken, Stirred and Chilled in Tests of Space Worthiness
NASA can make the exploration of Mars look easy. Generations of robotic spacecraft sent to orbit, land upon, and rove about the Martian surface seem to do their jobs courageously without even working...
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NASA’s New Space Observatory Discovers Its First Earth-like Exoplanet
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite, or TESS, made its first-ever discovery of an extrasolar planet of Earth’s size that is also located within its star’s habitable zone. Exoplanet hunters...
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Vote Here for the Name of New Mars Rover. Polls Close Monday Night
What would you name NASA’s next Mars rover? Last year, the space agency posed this question to students in Kindergarten through 12th grade, along with a homework assignment: Write an essay to convince...
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NASA Plans to Send a Woman to the Moon … and Really Soon
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy told his country, “We choose to go to the moon!” It took another seven years before the first two men of the Apollo program set foot there. But now, have you heard?...
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Top 10 All-Time Favorite Space Pics From an Astronomer in Isolation
Looking for another entertaining, educational thing to do during your stay-at-home confinement? Here’s a list of favorite space images, collected by an astronomer — me — passing the time in isolation,...
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NASA Scientists Now Have to Explore Mars From Their Own Homes
On Mars, nothing has changed for the rover Curiosity because of the coronavirus pandemic. It continues its exploration up the slopes of Mount Sharp. Curiosity drives where it’s told, stopping to take a...
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NASA Mission to Look for Past Life on Mars Still on Track, Despite Coronavirus
While most of us have been in shelter-at-home mode, Perseverance, NASA’s next-generation Mars rover, has been getting ready for a major trip. In February, it packed its bags, so to speak, and moved...
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A New SpaceX Spacecraft Will Launch Wednesday, With NASA Astronauts on Board
Almost 40 years have passed since the last time NASA astronauts blasted off into space on a brand new spaceship. Now, as NASA looks forward to Wednesday’s planned test flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon...
View ArticleSpaceX Launch Carrying NASA Astronauts Postponed Due to Weather
The launch of a SpaceX rocket ship with two NASA astronauts on a history-making flight into orbit was called off with 16 minutes to go in the countdown Wednesday because of thunderclouds and the danger...
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