Perseverance’s first major successes on Mars – an update from mission scientists
Oct 09, 2021 08:13 am UTC| Science
In the short time since NASAs Perseverance rover landed in Mars Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021, its already made history. At the moment, Mars and the Earth are on opposite sides of the Sun, and the two planets cannot...
Jun 07, 2021 23:45 pm UTC| Science
Its been 30 years since Nasa last visited Venus, with the Magellan orbiter in 1990. Now, two new missions have been selected to explore the deadly atmosphere, crushing pressures and volcanic landscape. The process dates...
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter flight on Mars opens up new frontiers in space exploration
Apr 22, 2021 05:41 am UTC| Science
History has been made on Mars: NASAs Ingenuity helicopter just achieved the first powered and controlled flight on another planet. Ingenuity is a small, lightweight, drone-like helicopter that was carried on the...
Feb 20, 2021 12:10 pm UTC| Science
NASAs Perseverance rover successfully touched down on Mars this morning, and has already begun beaming back images. But people might be surprised to learn there have been another 48 missions to the red planet so far. Of...
SpaceX's Starlink satellites are about to ruin stargazing for everyone
Nov 18, 2020 03:28 am UTC| Science
I walk outside my rural Saskatchewan house before dawn and look up, expecting to have my breath taken away by the sheer number of stars overhead. Im a professional astronomer, but I still appreciate naked-eye stargazing as...
How to live in space: what we've learned from 20 years of the International Space Station
Nov 02, 2020 09:13 am UTC| Science
November 2 marks 20 years since the first residents arrived on the International Space Station (ISS). The orbiting habitat has been continuously occupied ever since. Twenty straight years of life in space makes the ISS...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx will land on an asteroid to bring home rocks and dust – if it can avoid Mt. Doom
Oct 20, 2020 13:56 pm UTC| Science
Imagine parallel parking a 15-passenger van into just two to three parking spaces surrounded by two-story boulders. On Oct. 20, a University of Arizona-led NASA mission 16 years in the making will attempt the astronomical...
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