NASA’s Perseverance has finally landed on the Red Planet! The news came yesterday as the rover streaked gloriously through the orange Martian atmosphere and touched the planet’s ground. That was just the first step and the riskiest one yet in ...
NASA’s InSight probe is getting ready for some changes. Winter is coming to Elysium Planitia, and the bold probe needs to be kept safe. InSight deals with one of the toughest challenges so far: dust. The increasing dustiness of the ...
As the Universe unfolds itself in front of space telescopes’ eyes, we know that we’ll never understand it nor explore it thoroughly. It’s an enormous place, home of many cosmic features, galaxies, planets, and other worlds yet to be discovered. ...
NASA’s successful OSIRIS-REx will soon return home. The spacecraft will begin a two-year trip back to Earth on May 10. During last year sample collection event, OSIRIS-REx gathered enough material from asteroid Bennu’s surface. The mission was a real success ...
NASA released a series of intriguing images of two unique planetary nebulae captured by the incredible Hubble Space Telescope. New insights about how the cosmic bodies can make their dramatic features are available, too! The Butterfly Nebula, also known as ...
NASA performed a check-up on its massive Space Lunar System (SLS) lunar rocket recently and released a status update. The check-up included a test firing of the engines that didn’t go as initially planned. However, NASA engineers explained that they ...
NASA aims to launch one of the most powerful rockets ever made on January 17. Even if the SLS (the Space Launch System) rocket launch was previously delayed, it’s still the most-awaited project NASA intends to use for non-commercial crewed ...
An incredible close-up of Mars’ massive canyon is now available thanks to NASA’s HiRISE. The University of Arizona has released the images, offering more details. HiRISE shot the canyon in an attempt to determine the origins of it. Here is ...
Discovering a genuinely unique magnetar was the highlight of 2020! Astronomers introduced the new “member” to an exclusive family of exotic cosmic bodies. NASA’s Chandra X-ray offered essential data and supported the idea that the magnetar is also a pulsar. ...
NASA will reach another space milestone thanks to its rover, Perseverance. Not more than 80 million km left to go in its 471 million km mission, the rover is almost there. Perseverance is close to Mars, and in 43 days, ...
Last year brought notable firsts in space exploration. Now, we have six new space missions, ready to change our views. From the James Webb Space Telescope, Chandrayaan-3, bold Mars missions, to Artemis 1, space never felt so busy. Here is ...