A daytime high of 15 degrees Fahrenheit doesn’t sound too brutal for a winter day on Mars’ desolate surface. But... Read More
Three months into its observations and TESS was already finding confirmed exoplanets. Another 280+ potential exoplanets are getting follow-up observations... Read More
While primarily a Jupiter mission, NASA’s Juno spacecraft takes any opportunity it gets to look at the gas giant’s moons.... Read More
NASA’s New Horizons probe is closing in fast on its second target, a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) nicknamed Ultima Thule.... Read More
Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders spent 20 hours circling the Moon ten times. And those 20 hours... Read More
New research says Saturn’s rings are a cosmological ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ moment. Scientists first inkling that Saturn’s rings... Read More
For CubeSats, hitching a ride to space depends on if there’s enough space on another mission to squeeze aboard. That... Read More
NASA’s InSight lander is looking slick. The latest robot to call Mars home used a camera attached to its robotic... Read More
It took a little over two years and more than two billion kilometers of cruising, but NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made... Read More
We will never hear from NASA’s Kepler space telescope again. On October 30, the space agency announced the telescope’s mission... Read More
In about a month, NASA’s InSight lander will touch down on the red planet’s surface. Two CubeSats hitched a ride... Read More
Engineers back on Earth are hailing the hardy Martian rover. So far, the only answer back is silence. A planet-wide... Read More