Missions
NASA’s Perseverance Rover is Setting Records on Mars
NASA's Perseverance Rover has been exploring Mars for more than 900 sols. It's the most scientifically advanced rover ever built…
Lucy Has its First Asteroid Target in the Crosshairs
NASA's Lucy spacecraft launched almost one year ago, in October of 2021. Its journey is an ambitious one, and long.…
DART Had a Surprising Impact on its Target
After NASA's DART mission slammed into asteroid Dimorphous in September 2022, scientists determined the impact caused tons of rock to…
As Night Falls, India’s Lunar Lander/Rover Goes to Sleep. Probably Forever
India's Chandrayaan-3 mission delivered its Vikram lander and Pragyan rover to the lunar surface on August 23rd. Now, as the…
India Follows its Lunar Mission by Sending a Spacecraft to Study the Sun
Amid its Chandrayaan-3 mission to the Moon, India’s space agency launched another satellite and this one will study the Sun.…
NASA Satellite Spots the Crash Site for Luna 25
Poor Russia. They can't seem to get much right. Their most recent failure is their Luna 25 spacecraft. It was…
So Much to Do, So Little Time. Chandrayaan-3 Makes the Most of Its Time at the Moon’s South Pole
India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander and rover are quickly checking all the boxes of planned tasks for the mission. Time is…
Over 100 Million Years Ago, Olympus Mons Had a Massive Landslide
While the surface of Mars looks relatively unchanging now, it wasn’t always so. The tallest mountain in the Solar System…
We've Got to Go Back to Enceladus. Here's a Mission That Could Get the Science
Saturn's moon Enceladus is one of the most promising places to look for life in the Solar System. It has…
A Practical Use for Space Power: Beaming Energy to Probes on Venus
A few weeks ago, a team of scientists from Caltech announced that they had successfully transmitted energy from an orbiting…