Why we need to get back to Venus
Why we need to get back to Venus
Paul K. Byrne, North Carolina State University
Just next door, cosmologically speaking, is a planet almost exactly like...
NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover Completes Its First Drive
Republished from article on JPL.NASA.gov
NASA's next Mars rover has passed its first driving test. A preliminary assessment of its activities on Dec. 17, 2019,...
Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky
Republished from an article on JPL.NASA.gov - 11/26/2019
Dust storms are common on Mars. But every decade or so, something unpredictable happens: A series of...
SpaceX Dragon Heads to Space Station with NASA Science, Cargo
Article Originally Published at NASA.gov 12/05/19
A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station after launching at 12:29 p.m....
NASA’s TESS spacecraft is finding hundreds of exoplanets
Daniel Apai, University of Arizona and Benjamin Rackham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NASA's TESS spacecraft is finding hundreds of exoplanets – and is poised to...
The First Pinpoint Landing on the Moon
Apollo 12: Fifty years ago, a passionate scientist's keen eye led to the first pinpoint landing on the Moon
Timothy Swindle, University of Arizona
When Apollo...
The Goblin Makes an Appearance
The 40,000 year orbit of a recently discovered dwarf planet, nicknamed “The Goblin” adds to growing circumstantial evidence of a yet unseen giant planet...
Hypervelocity Stars – passing through the galaxy
Astronomers have recently discovered a larger than expected number of hypervelocity stars passing through our galaxy. A few of these stars are...
The Lost-and-Found Asteroid
An asteroid traveling at over 28,000 miles per hour passed by the earth on May the 15th, 2018. Not an unusual occurrence at all,...
