Missions
JWST Built with ‘Unobtainium’
[/caption] The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the much anticipated, long awaited “next generation” telescope, which we hope will…
Solar Dynamics Observatory Earns its Stripes
[/caption] "Now we know what it would look like if Jupiter and the sun had a child," joked Ralph Seguin…
STEREO Catches Mercury Acting Like a Comet
The STEREO mission to study the Sun also has observed some unusual comet-like features exhibited by the planet Mercury, with…
5 Things About the Next Mars Rover
[/caption] NASA's next Mars rover, the Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity, is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida…
NASA to Send a Probe Into the Sun
[/caption] NASA recently announced its choices for the experiments to fly aboard the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft, which is slated…
Viking Experiment May Have Found Life’s Building Blocks on Mars After All
[/caption] A new look at data from the Mars Viking landers concludes that the two landers may have found the…
New Horizons Mission Practices Telescopic Imager on Pluto’s Twin
[/caption] This summer, the New Horizons spacecraft was awoken for its annual systems checkout, and took the opportunity to exercise…
JAXA Delays Releasing Details of Hayabusa Sample Return
[/caption] No news yet if there are specks of asteroid dust in the Haybusa sample return container. JAXA has decided…
Amazing Image: Map of Magnetic Field Lines of the Sun
[/caption] The Sun's corona is threaded with a complex network of magnetic fields, and this amazing new image from the…
Desert RATS – On The Move
[/caption] For some fourteen years now NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies (Desert RATS) team has been testing out…