NASA heading back to Mars
NASA's big move to search for life on Mars – and to bring rocks home
Briony Horgan, Purdue University and Melissa Rice, Western Washington University
This...
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...
Why are some black holes bigger than others? An astronomer explains...
Jaclyn Champagne, University of Arizona
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope Gets Two-Year Mission Extension
Jun 30, 2021
Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA
NEOWISE has provided an estimate of the size of over 1,850 near-Earth objects, helping us better understand our...
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,...
Caught in the Act: Astronomers Detect a Star Devouring a Planet
A star nearing the end of its life swelled up and absorbed a Jupiter-size planet. In about 5 billion years, our Sun will go...
Studying the effects of microgravity on human cell growth.
Why are scientists trying to manufacture organs in space?
Alysson R. Muotri, University of California San Diego
Gravity can be a real downer when you are...
Searching for Super Earths
Super-Earths are bigger, more common and more habitable than Earth itself – and astronomers are discovering more of the billions they think are out there
Chris...
Building a mirror for one of the world’s biggest telescopes
Buddy Martin, University of Arizona and Dae Wook Kim, University of Arizona
When astronomers point their telescopes up at the sky to see distant supernovae...
Perseverance is the first of a new class of Mars explorers
Bringing Mars rocks back to Earth: On Feb. 18, Perseverance Rover landed safely on Mars – a lead scientist explains the tech and goals
Jim...
