Missions
Brand New Impact Crater Shows Up on Mars
The great thing about the longevity of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is that we can see changes taking place on…
Trailer: New Horizons Gets Ready to Meet Pluto
Less than a year from now, the New Horizons spacecraft will begin its encounter with Pluto. While closest approach is…
The Difficulties of Operating a Rover on Mars for 10 Years
Want to get an engineer excited? Give them a challenge. And the Opportunity rover has provided plenty of challenges in…
Watch Live: ESA Waits for Signal from Comet-Chasing Spacecraft
Watch live streaming video from eurospaceagency at livestream.com UPDATE: Rosetta woke up! Read our full story about the acquisition of…
The Rock that Appeared Out of Nowhere on Mars
During last night's celebration at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of ten years of the Mars Exploration Rovers, mission principal investigator…
Hitch a Ride on the Next Mission to an Asteroid
NASA and the Planetary Society are teaming up to give everyone the opportunity tag along on the next mission to…
Fly Over the Floodplains of Mars
Over 3 billion years ago, dramatic flood events likely carved this gigantic channel system on Mars. It extends some 3,000…
Oh, the Places We’ve Been: 21 Spacecraft Trajectories Plotted in One Picture
Want to know the orbital paths where different spacecraft have traveled and where they are now? A great new infographic…
Human Lunar Missions Would Be Threatened By Dust Pileups: Study
Dust on the moon accumulates at a rate 10 times faster than previously believed, which could make it difficult for…
New Animation Shows How Mars was Like Earth Billions of Years Ago
4 billion years ago, the atmosphere of Mars could have been rich in oxygen and thick enough and warm enough…