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Here’s NASA’s New Plan to Get InSight’s Temperature Probe Into Mars
The mole is still stuck. The mole is the name given to the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3)…
InSight Has Already Detected 21 Marsquakes
The SEIS (Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure) instrument on NASA's InSight lander has sensed 21 Marsquakes since it was deployed…
WFIRST Gets its Coronagraph, to Block the Light of Stars and Reveal Their Planets
The coronagraph instrument, which will help NASA's WFIRST mission to search for exoplanets, just passed a major milestone!
Shape-shifting Robots Like These Could Be Just What We Need to Explore Titan
When it comes to space exploration, it's robots that do most of the work. That trend will continue as we…
This Summer’s Asteroid Near-Miss Helped Greenlight NASA’s NEOCam Mission to Search the Skies for Killer Spacerocks
Last July, a once-in-a-lifetime event happened. Not the good kind; the football-field-sized-asteroid near-miss kind. And that near miss is the…
Venus Could Have Supported Life for Billions of Years
A new study by a team of NASA scientists indicates that Venus could have been habitable for billions of years…
Astronauts Try Mixing Concrete in Space
What sounds like a slap-stick comedy shtick is actually solid science. With so much of humanity's space-faring future involving habitats,…
NASA Tests Autonomous Lunar Landing Technology
In anticipation of many Moon landings to come, NASA is testing an autonomous lunar landing system in the Mojave Desert…
Europe and US are Going to Try and Deflect an Asteroid
The ESA and NASA are getting closer to mounting the AIDA mission, which will will test the effectiveness of asteroid…
Mars 2020 Rover Gets its Helicopter Sidekick
Work on the Mars 2020 Rover is heating up as the July/August 2020 launch date approaches. Mission engineers just attached…