Space Exploration

  NASA’s Opportunity vagabond just recently commemorated a wedding anniversary, however it was bittersweet. Recently significant 15 years on the Martian surface area for the little vagabond, however it continues to be quiet complying with a beast black blizzard on the red world in 2014. NASA is commemorating this turning …

  The Apollo objectives might have been introduced as component of a Cold War-era race with the Soviet Union, yet the geological expertise we obtained from them was significant. Till Apollo, we really did not understand that the Earth and also the Moon show up to have comparable proportions of …

  NASA’s New Horizons probe was a smashing success when it completed the first-ever flyby of the former ninth planet. Getting a better look at Pluto was only the start, though. NASA pointed New Horizons at a small Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69 or “Ultima Thule.” We’ve seen a …

  It’s been a long time coming, but NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is close to its first launch. SpaceX says it is currently planning for the initial test flight of its crewed Dragon capsule next month. This comes after a series of setbacks as both SpaceX and Boeing trudged through …

Planetary researchers believe that our Moon was created more than 4.4 billion years ago in a catastrophic collision between proto-Earth and a hypothetical planet-sized body known as Theia. According to new research, our planet received the bulk of its carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and other life-essential elements from that planetary collision. …

New research tackles one of the greatest mysteries about Saturn’s moon Titan: the origin of its present-day nitrogen atmosphere. Published in the Astrophysical Journal, the study suggests that Titan’s interior is likely warm, and that nitrogen from organic material in the moon’s interior may contribute on the order of 50% …

  SpaceX is working on the initial prototype of the Starship rocket (formerly BFR) that could eventually carry people to the moon and Mars. However, CEO Elon Musk recently announced a significant design revision that seems counterintuitive at first. Instead of aluminum and carbon fiber, the company has decided to …

  Humans haven’t set foot on the moon in decades, but that could change soon. The first step in that process is to learn more about so-called “in-situ” resource management. Mining materials on the moon could aid future manned missions, and the European Space Agency (ESA) aims to begin testing …

  Our image of the outer solar system in decades past was much simpler than it is today. Pluto was the ninth planet, and that was the end of it except for some scattered asteroids and comets. Now, science doesn’t consider Pluto a planet, but some believe there’s a still-undiscovered …

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft observed Saturn’s ring system in unprecedented detail, and a team of planetary researchers from the University of California Santa Cruz and NASA’s Ames Research Center has now used those observations to revise the gas giant’s rotation period. According to their calculations, the length of a day on …