NASA is working on a roadmap for robots that could visit ocean worlds via future space missions and crack the world’s thick, icy shells to explore subterranean seas in search of life. Recently, the space agency unveiled the results of a NASA-sponsored workshop held in February 2023 that brought together scientists and engineers to discuss … Read more
The year 2023 proved to be a big year for space missions, with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample of an asteroid and India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission exploring the moon’s south pole, and 2024 will be another exciting year for space exploration. Several new missions under NASA’s Artemis plan and the Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative … Read more
A pair of companies plan to launch unmanned spacecraft to the moon within weeks of each other early next year in a NASA-funded effort that could mark the first soft landings for the United States on the lunar surface since the last of the Apollo missions in 1972. But in a sign of how the … Read more
It’s been about 30 years since NASA astronauts… Hubble Space Telescope on an extremely daring mission. At the time, it was perhaps the most daring mission scientists had conceived. In short, Hubble was launched in 1990 with defective optics that produced blurry images. Fortunately, however, there is the space telescope that orbits the Earth Soil, … Read more
A pair of companies plan to launch unmanned spacecraft to the moon within weeks of each other early next year in a NASA-funded effort that could mark the first soft landings for the United States on the lunar surface since the last of the Apollo missions in 1972. But in a sign of how the … Read more
If there is indeed a multiverse in which every possible outcome occurs, then in one of those universes Marv Murchins, one half of the “Wet Bandits” from “Home Alone,” serves as NASA administrator. As unlikely as that may seem, something similar is playing out in the current season of “For All Mankind.” Actor Daniel Stern, … Read more
A red planet, Mars, can be seen on the left. a white box surrounds an image of the surface of Mars, with an arrow from the box to the planet. another box, with an arrow pointing to the first box, shows a closer view of the surface of Mars. A team from the University of … Read more
Astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen (LR) will venture around the moon on Artemis II – RSSIL/MEGA Flying to the moon is a dream of most astronauts, but for the crew of the upcoming Artemis II mission, returning safely to Earth is their ultimate goal. In an exclusive interview for Telegraph … Read more
Nearly three years ago, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars as part of a decades-long effort to investigate whether the now barren planet once hosted life. Jezero crater once housed a large lake and a river delta. The size of a car Perseverance, equipped with advanced cameras and scientific instruments, has so far spent its … Read more
In recent years there has been a wave of encounters and collisions with various asteroids. Interestingly, the composition of the asteroid debris clusters was surprising in several cases. Asteroid probes from several countries have found no solid objects, but numerous pieces of gravel and boulders loosely connected by the object’s small gravitational field. Lately, it … Read more