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Dusk for Dawn mission to asteroids
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has gone silent. The mission to explore the 2 largest bodies in the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres, is at an end.
November 3, 2018
Bold new plan announced to explore alien ocean worlds
Earth is not the only ocean world in the solar system. In fact, there are several. A new paper just published in Astrobiology seeks to plan out the best ways to explore these alien oceans.
November 2, 2018
Scientists now processing images of asteroid Bennu
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft - launched from Earth in September 2016 - has begun acquiring images of the mission target, primitive asteroid Bennu.
November 2, 2018
NASA to continue signaling Opportunity rover on Mars
The initial 45-day signaling period to the 14-year-old rover has ended. But NASA said this week it will continue trying to hail Opportunity. The rover has been silent since June, when a Mars dust storm swept over it.
November 1, 2018
Rare blue asteroid sometimes behaves like a comet
Astronomers caught a glimpse of Phaethon - the bizarre blue asteroid responsible for the Geminid meteor shower - and found it even more enigmatic than they’d thought.
November 1, 2018
What made these weird straight lines on Dione?
Planetary scientists have discovered some very unusual long straight lines on the surface of Saturn's moon Dione. What created them?
November 1, 2018
Kepler planet-hunter retires
We currently have nearly 4,000 confirmed exoplanets, or planets orbiting distant suns. Kepler discovered more than 2,600 of them. But now Kepler is passing the torch.
October 31, 2018
Parker solar probe becomes closest-yet spacecraft to sun
On Monday, the Parker Solar Probe, launched August 12, broke the record for closest approach to the sun by a human-made object.
October 30, 2018
Ancient cold front in Perseus
Galactic cold fronts aren't like the cold fronts we experience on Earth. They're caused by galaxy clusters colliding into one another.
October 30, 2018
Why don’t Europa’s plumes have heat signatures?
Europa has been thought to have water vapor plumes similar to those on Saturn's moon Enceladus. But new research shows Europa's plumes differ significantly from those on Enceladus - or, perhaps - don't really exist at all.
October 29, 2018
