Missions

NASA’s Highly Productive LADEE Dust Explorer Probe Crashes into the Moon as Planned

NASA's LADEE lunar orbiting dust and atmosphere explorer probe has bitten the dust and crashed into the Moon’s surface exactly…

11 years ago

Urgent Spacewalk Must Dance Between Dragon and Progress Spacecraft

It's a good thing that next week's urgent spacewalk is pegged as a short one, because the coming days will be hectic…

11 years ago

Ceres and Vesta Converge in Virgo, Watch it Happen With Just Binoculars

Don't let them pass you by. Right now and continuing through July, the biggest and brightest asteroids will be running…

11 years ago

Um, You Can See a Car on Mars

First of all, I completely stole this headline from NASA engineer Bobak Ferdowski (AKA The Mohawk Guy) on Twitter. Second,…

11 years ago

Let’s Put a Sailboat on Titan

The large moons orbiting the gas giants in our solar system have been getting increasing attention in recent years. Titan,…

11 years ago

After The Flood: Ancient Waters Carved These Martian Channels

This picture is an example of why Martian scientists like to get their groove on. This late 2013 snapshot of…

11 years ago

JPL Tests Big with a Supersonic Parachute for Mars

"You wanna go to Mars, you wanna go big? Then you gotta test big here," says mechanical engineer Michael Meacham,…

11 years ago