We live in a brand new era for lunar activities. With over 100 payloads from around the globe planned to visit the Moon by 2030, our closest natural satellite will
We live in a brand new era for lunar activities. With over 100 payloads from around the globe planned to visit the Moon by 2030, our closest natural satellite will
Shortly after astronomers detected asteroid 2024 YR4 on December 27, 2024, they realized it posed no threat to Earth. But it could still impact the moon in 2032. The impact
An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in the U.S. and taking the world by surprise. Two
4 Min Read NASA to Gather In-Flight Imagery of Commercial Test Capsule Re-Entry During the September 2023 daytime reentry of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule, the SCIFLI team captured visual
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Some career changes involve small shifts. But for one NASA engineering intern, the leap was much bigger –moving from
Mass-Radius plot of asteroids, moons, planets, brown dwarfs and low-mass stars. From nearly 5600 exoplanets listed in the PHL-HWC database, 1504 are categorized as terrestrial worlds (orange dots), 2609 as
Average completeness (purple), number of planets before correction (red) and number of planets after correction (green) inside each bin (blue lines). Blue and orange circles represent cold Jupiters with and
A clay-rich mesa in the Hellas basin of Mars. The blue color near the rim is aluminum bearing clays. The red-orange color below that is iron and magnesium bearing clays.
Mars holds two of humanity’s greatest space ambitions, discovering alien life and establishing our first foothold on another world. Key to both is the discovery of water. We know it’s
Airplane passengers crossing the Indian Ocean who peered out their windows on Oct. 19, 2024, might have seen what looked like a fast-moving star suddenly flash and fade. Above their