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Onboard, each rover will carry a small computer, a wireless radio, and a stereo camera to capture 3D imagery. While none of them alone will be...
Lucy will take black-and-white and color images, and use a diamond beam splitter to shine far-infrared light at the asteroids to take their temperature and make...
The survey committee, which receives input from a host of smaller panels, takes into account a gargantuan amount of information to create research strategies. Although the Academies won’t...
Led by Harrison Agrusa from the University of Maryland, researchers modeled how much DART might change the spin or rotation of Dimorphos by calculating how the...
It’s a fortunate turn of events from early August, when Perseverance made its first attempt at getting a sample but scientists found that nothing actually ended...
NASA’s InSight robotic lander has just given us our first look deep inside a planet other than Earth. More than two years after its launch, seismic data that InSight collected has given researchers...
In 1930, Clyde Tombaugh, a 25-year-old amateur astronomer, spied a small, dim object in the night sky. He’d been working at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, for about a...
In America, at least 17 people a day die waiting for an organ transplant. But instead of waiting for a donor to die, what if we...
What’s the big deal? Future astronauts will need oxygen to breathe and live, but oxygen is also a critical rocket fuel component. A single rocket launch...
The news: NASA has flown an aircraft on another planet for the first time. On Monday, April 19, Ingenuity, a 1.8-kilogram drone helicopter, took off from...
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