After going nowhere for the past several months, the InSight lander’s heat probe chewed through three centimeters of Martian dirt... Read More
InSight’s heat probe hasn’t lived up to its moniker “the mole.” It began burrowing itself into Mars’ surface back in... Read More
NASA recently placed an order for at least six Orion spacecraft from Lockheed Martin. The first six were ordered in... Read More
A NASA mission to search for signs of life on Jupiter’s icy moon was given the green light to enter... Read More
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx reached the asteroid Bennu in December 2018, the team were met with a rock that was rougher... Read More
NASA’s oldest explorers are still kicking far beyond the orbit of Pluto. In fact, Voyager 2 is talking to us... Read More
An atomic clock that could be a big help for deep-space missions is hitching a ride aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy... Read More
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover doesn’t look like a bunch of cold steel and wires anymore. Last week, JPL engineers were... Read More
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
