When NASA's InSight mission to Mars lifts off on May 5, it won't be alone. Nestled inside the Atlas V launcher on the aft bulkhead carrier of the Centaur upper stage will be two CubeSats that will make up the Mars Cube One mission, or MarCO.
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The hunt for planets beyond the solar system went up a gear today, as NASA launched its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
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As if they don't already have enough on their plate, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are turning storm chasers. On April 13, a remote controlled robotic arm installed the Space Storm Hunter instrument package that will make an extensive survey of terrestrial thunderstorms.
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It's all a matter of perspective. The latest snap shared by scientists from NASA's Cassini's mission won't not reach the iconic status of Voyager 1's legendary Pale Blue Dot image, but does show a corner of our Solar System in a fascinating new light.
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NASA has released a stunningly detailed 4K virtual tour of some of the Moon’s most fascinating and important features. Earth’s satellite is the only alien world ever to be visited by a crewed mission, and is likely to be revisited in the coming decades.
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On May 5, the first interplanetary mission to launch from the US Pacific coast is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The InSight mission will lift off atop an Atlas V rocket on its first leg to Mars to conduct studies of the planet's structure.
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NASA has awarded a US$247.5 million contract to Lockheed Martin to design, build, and test a prototype supersonic aircraft capable of generating no more noise than a car door closing while flying faster than the speed of sound over populated areas.
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NASA has just green-lighted a research project to investigate how swarms of robotic bees might spread out over the surface of Mars, equipping our exploration efforts with a much wider net.
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The launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been delayed once again, with a new window set for May 2020. The next-generation space telescope had previously been set to launch into orbit atop an Ariane 5 rocket from ESA’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, in the Spring of 2019.
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has passed yet another impressive milestone, having spent 2,000 Martian days exploring one of the most enigmatic and fascinating worlds populating our solar system.
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