NASA’s planet-hunter, TESS, has reached a new milestone: 2,241 possible planets! The incredible record marks two years of work. TESS has been developed to spot alien worlds in what seemed two years ago, one of the most challenging mission. The ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted a dust devil on Mars recently. Such an intriguing weather phenomenon takes place on our planet, too, and could help us better understand the Martian climate. Perseverance’s cameras captured the occurrence, and the footage is now ...
NASA’s upcoming mission will explore Saturn’s moon for any signs of life. The space agency will send a sample-return spacecraft, dubbed Dragonfly, to Titan by 2027. The lander will use liquid methane harvested from Saturn’s moon as fuel, and it ...
It’s official! NASA’s rover has begun its search for signs of life on the Red Planet. The Perseverance rover’s SuperCam has collected the first “pieces of Mars,” and now we have all the details. This is just the first step ...
NASA’s Mars rover just made its first steps on the dusty Martian ground! Perseverance performed a test drive of 21 feet (6,4 meters), and new data is now available. The rover ventured away from its landing position after landing there ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover captured a new high-definition panoramic view of Mars’ Jezero Crater. The shot is fantastic, and it shows a great deal of Martian ground. Thanks to the rover’s Mastcam-Z, a dual-camera system equipped with an advanced zoom feature, ...
Good news from Mars! NASA just received the first report from the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, so we know what’s really happening up there. According to the report, everything is operating as expected, meaning both the helicopter and its base station ...
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. ...