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Watch LADEE Launch Live!
The LADEE spacecraft on board a Minotaur V rocket, ready for launch at the Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia. Credit: NASA, NASA’s heading back to the Moon, and you can see the launch – either...
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It’s Official: Voyager 1 Is Now In Interstellar Space
This artist’s concept shows the Voyager 1 spacecraft entering the space between stars. Interstellar space is dominated by plasma, ionized gas (illustrated here as brownish haze), that was thrown off by...
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Sleek GOCE Spacecraft Will Have Uncontrolled Re-entry into Earth’s Atmosphere
GOCE in orbit. Credit: ESA The sleek and sexy-looking GOCE spacecraft has been mapping Earth’s gravity for over four years, but soon its xenon fuel will run out and the satellite will end up...
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Amateur Images Show Juno’s ‘Slingshot’ Around Earth Was a Success
The path of the Juno spacecraft imaged as it flies past Earth on October 9, 2013, using the iTelescope Observatory in Nerpio, Spain. Credit and copyright: Ernesto Guido, Nick Howes and Martino...
View ArticleStunning New Flyover Video: Volcanoes, Canyons and Craters of Mars
Go from the highest volcano to the deepest canyon on Mars in this great new complication video from images taken by ESA’s Mars Express. The data shown here was gathered from the nearly 12,500 orbits...
View ArticleA Guided Aerial Tour of Curiosity’s Journey So Far on Mars
Just where has the Curiosity rover traveled so far and where is it going? This new video, narrated by John Grotzinger, the principal investigator for the Mars Science Laboratory mission, provides an...
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How Astronauts Can Explore The Martian Moon Phobos
Projected timeline of the MARS-X project. Credit: MARS-X OTTAWA, CANADA – Humans would spend more than a year orbiting and bouncing on the Martian moon Phobos under a mission concept developed by...
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New Animation Shows How Mars was Like Earth Billions of Years Ago
Artist concept of an ancient, habitable Mars capable of supporting liquid water on its surface. Credit: Michael Lentz/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab. 4 billion years ago, the...
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Human Lunar Missions Would Be Threatened By Dust Pileups: Study
The lunar dust detector (visible on the far left of this Apollo 12 experiment package in 1969) measured dust build-up on the moon. Credit: NASA Dust on the moon accumulates at a rate 10 times faster...
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Oh, the Places We’ve Been: 21 Spacecraft Trajectories Plotted in One Picture
One image from an infographic showing trajectories of 21 different unmanned spacecraft. Click for full image. Credit: Kevin Gill. Want to know the orbital paths where different spacecraft have traveled...
View ArticleFly Over the Floodplains of Mars
Over 3 billion years ago, dramatic flood events likely carved this gigantic channel system on Mars. It extends some 3,000 km and covers over 1.55 million square kilometers. ESA released this flyover...
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Hitch a Ride on the Next Mission to an Asteroid
This is an artist’s concept of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft preparing to take a sample from asteroid Bennu. Credit:NASA/Goddard/Chris Meaney NASA and the Planetary Society are teaming up to give...
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The Rock that Appeared Out of Nowhere on Mars
Screenshot from Steve Squyres presentation celebrating 10 years of the Mars Exploration Rovers. A rock suddenly appeared where there was none 12 sols earlier. During last night’s celebration at the Jet...
View ArticleWatch Live: ESA Waits for Signal from Comet-Chasing Spacecraft
Watch live streaming video from eurospaceagency at livestream.com UPDATE: Rosetta woke up! Read our full story about the acquisition of signal here. For the first time, a spacecraft will follow a...
View ArticleThe Difficulties of Operating a Rover on Mars for 10 Years
Want to get an engineer excited? Give them a challenge. And the Opportunity rover has provided plenty of challenges in the past 10 years on Mars. Fun challenges, though. Amazing tests of wit and...
View ArticleTrailer: New Horizons Gets Ready to Meet Pluto
Less than a year from now, the New Horizons spacecraft will begin its encounter with Pluto. While closest approach is scheduled for July 2015, the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager or “LORRI” will...
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Brand New Impact Crater Shows Up on Mars
A fresh impact crater is seen in this image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Nov. 19, 2013. Credit: NASA/JPL/University...
View ArticleA Mesmerizing Look at Year 4 of the Solar Dynamics Observatory
Four years ago today, the Solar Dynamics Observatory embarked on a five-year mission to boldly go where no Sun-observing satellite has gone before. SDO uses its three instruments to look constantly at...
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Real Images From NASA Show the ‘Cosmos’ as a Space-Time Odyssey
A false-color image, taken by the Cassini spacecraft, of a huge hurricane at Saturn’s north pole. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI With the premiere of the revamped “Cosmos” series, NASA used this...
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“Bright Light” on Mars is Just an Image Artifact
A cosmic ray hit on a camera on the Curiosity rover produced what looks like a ‘light’ on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL Thanks to everyone who has emailed, Tweeted and texted me about the “artificial bright...
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