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. ...
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 ...