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
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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
