Missions
Journey’s End: Comet Crash for Rosetta Mission Finale
With a soft “awwww” from the mission team in the control center in Darmstadt, Germany, the signal from the Rosetta…
There It Is! Philae Lander Found
The search is over, and looking at these images, no wonder it was so hard to find the little Philae…
Europa Clipper Team Braces For Bad News
Apparent uncertainty in the budget for the Europa Clipper mission could be bad news for its proponents.
Apollo 11 Landing 47 Years Ago; See it Through New Eyes
Looking for a way to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission landing on the Moon? Here are…
Juno and the Deep Space Network: Bringing The Data Home
Sonny Giroux, Program Manager for NASA's Deep Space Network, explains how Juno uses the Network to communicate, and some of…
Launch Of World’s Largest Rocket Postponed
The Delta-4 Heavy launch scheduled for this weekend has been cancelled due to unspecified payload reasons.
Gender Generates Biological Challenges For Long Duration Spaceflight
Women are more susceptible to harmful changes in their microbiome during space travel. Understanding those changes will allow female astronauts…
Our Highest Resolution Views Yet of Pluto’s Surface
The New Horizons spacecraft has been slowly sending back all the images and data it gathered during its July flyby…
Spacecraft Launches to Test the Hunt for Ripples in the Fabric of Spacetime
The European Space Agency successfully launched the LISA Pathfinder, a spacecraft designed to demonstrate technology for observing gravitational waves in…
See Daytime Views of Pluto and Charon’s Rotation
A day on Pluto is 6.4 Earth days (6 days 9 hours and 36 minutes) long. That’s a lengthy, cold,…