NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured the image of a massive black spot on the surface of Jupiter during its 40th close pass by the giant planet on February 25, 2022. As detailed by NASA in a recent comm… [+1213 chars]
An unusual rock type spotted by two Mars rovers may indicate that the Martian landscape was shaped by extremely violent volcanic eruptions. The Nili Fossae region of Mars , which includes the Jezer… [+2463 chars]
NASA has extended the planetary science missions of eight of its spacecraft, which will help deepen the understanding of the solar system. Each of the missions was reviewed by more than 50 people. T… [+4524 chars]
NASA has announced it will end operations of its observatory on a plane, SOFIA or the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. The mission, which is a collaboration with German space agency … [+2268 chars]
Skywatchers in parts of southern South America, Antarctica, and the Pacific and Southern Oceans had prime seats to view the partial solar eclipse on Saturday, which coincided with a Black Moon. Apri… [+2318 chars]
There's an old joke that the dinosaurs are only extinct because they didn't develop a space agency. The implication, of course, is that unlike our reptilian ancestors, we humans might be able to save… [+4716 chars]
NASA's marsquake-hunting lander has detected its two largest seismic events to date, reports Scott Dutfield for Space, thanks to the most sensitive siesmometer ever designed. "Not only are they the … [+1930 chars]
ByDenise Buckner, University of FloridaMay 1, 2022 Artistic rendering of NASAs Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Recently on Mars Mars is the second smallest planet in our solar system … [+4345 chars]
NASA has extended the planetary science missions of eight of its spacecraft, which will help deepen the understanding of the solar system. Each of the missions was reviewed by more than 50 people. T… [+4524 chars]
For most of human history, we could only see six planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The two outermost planets, Uranus and Neptune, were too far for early civilizations to see … [+6007 chars]
NASA has announced it will end operations of its observatory on a plane, SOFIA or the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. The mission, which is a collaboration with German space agency … [+2268 chars]
NASA recently announced the addition of 65 newly confirmed planets to its archive, bringing the current number of exoplanets in our galaxy to 5,005. Scientists have observed enough exoplanets to get … [+8445 chars]
