Before NASA’s InSight lander gathers data on Martian surface vibrations, aka “marsquakes”, it needs to protect its seismographic instrument from the winds and temperature changes during...
The threat of asteroids crashing into Earth isn’t a new concern. We’ve been warned about it by science fiction authors and Hollywood alike, and any kid...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) collaborated with independent game studio Blackbird Interactive (BBI) to create an incredibly realistic interactive 3D Mars base simulation called Project Eagle....
NASA researchers at the Ames’ Astrophysics and Astrochemistry Lab in Mountain View, California have provided the first experimental evidence demonstrating that the sugar in DNA –...
In another historic feat for NASA’s InSight lander, a seismometer has now been deployed on Mars, marking the first time a scientific instrument has been placed...
Traveling at the record-breaking speed of 213,200 miles per hour, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe came within 15 million miles of the Sun’s surface, completing its first...
According to a Space Act Agreement signed by SpaceX and NASA’s Ames Research Center in June 2018, the private company has begun working with NASA to...
After what can only be described as an attempt to sandbag the official launch schedule, NASA administrator James Bridenstine remains alone in his public implication that the...
This fresh in from the Elysium Planitia of Mars: the sound of wind from an alien world. On its 10th day as a new resident of...
“We are going,” is an important part NASA’s motto for its return to the Moon, and to get there, the space agency will need corporate partners....
On November 26, 2018, NASA’s InSight lander arrived at Mars, our neighboring red planet, after a nearly seven month journey through deep space, but it didn’t...
Confirmed today at 2:53 pm EST, NASA’s InSight lander safely touched down on the surface of Mars. After six years without a visitor, the red planet...
On Monday, NASA’s InSight lander will complete the final phase of its journey to Mars by touching down on the planet’s red surface around 3 pm...
On Monday, November 26, 2018, a Mars lander will arrive on the surface of the red planet for the first time in six years, and NASA...
NASA has certified SpaceX’s Falcon 9 (likely F9 v1.2) to launch the space agency’s most valuable and critical scientific spacecraft, opening up the floor for SpaceX...
SpaceX and NASA have completed test runs with the company’s Florida recovery fleet in preparation for Crew Dragon’s first orbital missions with astronauts aboard, ensuring that...
After staring into the far reaches of our galaxy and beyond for nine years, space telescope Kepler was finally decommissioned by NASA on October 30, 2018...
At the same time as NASA’s overrun-stricken Space Launch System (SLS) continues to limp towards its continuously delayed launch debut, now tentatively expected no earlier than...
Almost entirely driven by chance, SpaceX and NASA may soon find themselves in an unintentional race to return humans to the Moon for the first time...
Five months after the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was placed in orbit, NASA has published a 4K video recapping the spacecraft’s pre-launch preparations and launch...