InSight has Mapped out the Interior of Mars, Revealing the Sizes of its Crust, Mantle, and Core

By Matthew Williams - July 30, 2021 03:16 PM UTC | Planetary Science

In a series of newly-published papers, NASA scientists have shown how InSight's seismic data allowed them to measure the structure and thickness of Mars' interior.

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Bad News. Those Underground Lakes on Mars? They're Probably Just Frozen Clay

By Ralph Crewe - July 30, 2021 01:01 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Starliner Will try Again on August 3 After ISS "Emergency"

By Nancy Atkinson - July 30, 2021 11:14 AM UTC | Space Exploration

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The Event Horizon Telescope Zooms in on Another Supermassive Black Hole

By Matthew Williams - July 29, 2021 05:07 PM UTC | Black Holes

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just captured another amazing image, this time of the relativistic jet coming from the center of the Centaurus A galaxy.

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Strange Intersecting Sand Dunes on Mars

By Nancy Atkinson - July 29, 2021 10:40 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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Blue Origin Offers a $2 Billion Discount to get Back in the Lunar Lander Game

By Andy Tomaswick - July 29, 2021 09:08 AM UTC | Space Policy

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Searching for Dark Matter Inside the Earth

By Andy Tomaswick - July 29, 2021 08:52 AM UTC | Physics

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A New Plan to Search for Extraterrestrial Artifacts at Earth and Across the Solar System

By Matthew Williams - July 28, 2021 05:23 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Professor Avi Loeb has announced a new project that will search for 'Oumuamua-like objects in our Solar System, which could be artifacts of extraterrestrial spacecraft

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Balloon Mission May Also Work to Detect Quakes on Venus

By David Dickinson - July 28, 2021 09:28 AM UTC | Planetary Science

An opportunity in 2019 lays the groundwork for balloon-borne detectors on Venus, working to unravel a key mystery.

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This is how you get Tatooines. Binary Star Planet Formation

By Andy Tomaswick - July 28, 2021 09:19 AM UTC | Exoplanets

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Water Vapour has Been Discovered at Ganymede

By Andy Tomaswick - July 28, 2021 08:35 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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Europe Launches its new Robotic arm, Which Will Crawl Around the International Space Station Like an Inchworm

By Andy Tomaswick - July 27, 2021 09:29 AM UTC | Space Exploration

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Perseverance is About to Collect the First Sample on Mars That Could Eventually be Returned to Earth

By Matthew Williams - July 26, 2021 05:04 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Mission controllers at NASA are making final preparations for the Perseverance rover to obtain its first sample of Martian rock, which will be returned to Earth for analysis.

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When the Sun Dies, Earth's Magnetosphere won't Provide Protection any More

By Andy Tomaswick - July 26, 2021 10:51 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

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Zhurong Finds its Own Parachute on the Surface of Mars

By Nancy Atkinson - July 26, 2021 10:36 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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A Gravitational Wave Observatory on the Moon Could "Hear" 70% of the Observable Universe

By Brian Koberlein - July 25, 2021 04:23 PM UTC | Cosmology

A gravitational-wave telescope on the Moon could span the gap between Earth-based and space-based observations.

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Incredible! Astronomers see a Moon-Forming Disk Around a Newly Forming Planet

By Andy Tomaswick - July 25, 2021 10:31 AM UTC | Exoplanets

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Observing the Night Side of Venus is Actually Pretty Tricky

By Andy Tomaswick - July 25, 2021 10:11 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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Russia Just Launched a New Science Module to the Space Station

By sjohnston - July 24, 2021 06:38 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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A new Balloon-Based Observatory Could Produce Images as Fine as Hubble

By Andy Tomaswick - July 24, 2021 05:08 PM UTC | Telescopes

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