NASA just landed another robot on Mars, and you should be pretty excited about that
NASA’s InSight lander has spent the bulk of 2018 flying through space towards its target, Mars. Today it finally arrived, passing through the planet’s atmosphere, …
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Watch NASA’s Mars InSight landing live right here
Well the big day is finally here! After months and months of travel from Earth the InSight lander is now poised to enter the martian …
NASA just published a detailed timeline for the Monday landing of Mars InSight
On Monday, November 26th, NASA’s newest piece of high-tech space hardware will finally find its way to the surface of Mars. It’s the InSight lander, …
NASA wants to know how much pot Elon Musk smokes
When Elon Musk appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast and had a taste of the host’s joint, it was totally on-brand for the risk-taking CEO. Musk …
The International Space Station just got a little bit bigger, temporarily
The international Space Station is already quite large, but it just got a little bit bigger as the ISS crew successfully installed the Cygnus cargo …
Here’s how NASA said goodbye to the Kepler space telescope
NASA was forced to plan for the inevitable death of the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope a few weeks ago. The spacecraft, which had already discovered …
NASA thought it got a signal from the silent Opportunity rover, but it broke our hearts again
NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover has been sitting still on Mars since June. It was then that a massive dust storm began to swallow up the …
Jupiter looks like a delicious caramel latte in this awesome new Juno photo
Hey, want a cup of coffee? I don’t actually have one to give you, but it’s a nice intro to talk about NASA’s latest photo …
NASA’s Sun-visiting spacecraft survived its first brush with a star
It’s been a busy week for the folks manning the controls of the Sun-touching Parker Solar Probe at NASA. After breaking a bunch of records …
NASA’s ‘quiet’ sonic boom tests kick off in Texas, and could change air travel forever
Modern air travel is fast, but it could be a lot faster. As the Concorde demonstrated, supersonic air travel is totally doable but comes with …
NASA’s mission to ‘Touch the Sun’ just reached its first major milestone with close flyby
It’s been a busy month for the Parker Solar Probe which, if you haven’t been keeping track, is currently moving faster than any man-made object …
Hubble captured an image of a face in space and I can’t tell if it’s cool or creepy
When NASA peers into the sky with any of its various telescopes, there’s always the chance that scientists will spot something they’ve never seen before. …
NASA’s InSight landing site is flat, boring, and totally perfect
When you’re sending a piece of high-tech hardware to another planet it might make sense to shoot for a location that is strange or interesting …
Feast your eyes on the first 8K video shot in space
Depending on how serious you are about your home entertainment, you might not even own a 4K TV yet. If that’s the case, you can …
Hubble spots a distant star casting a colossal shadow
NASA’s Hubble telescope has sent back some stunning images of eye-catching sights in the sky, but shadows aren’t usually a highlight of the eye candy …
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft just ran out of fuel and now it’s dead
It was only just yesterday that NASA announced its Kepler space telescope had officially been declared dead, and now there’s another long-running mission that has …
The Parker Solar Probe is now the fastest thing mankind has ever built
The Parker Solar Probe is having one heck of a week. It was only yesterday that NASA announced its do-it-all star-studying machine has gotten closer …
Russia finally explains what went wrong with the Soyuz rocket
It’s only been a few weeks since the Soyuz rocket launched by Russian space agency Roscosmos was forced to abort its launch shortly after takeoff. …
The exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope is now dead
If you’ve read anything about newly discovered exoplanets over the past decade there’s a really good chance the discovery was made by the Kepler space …
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is now the closest to the Sun that any spacecraft has ever been
NASA’s much-hyped mission to “touch the Sun” has only been underway for a couple of months, but it’s already achieved something that no other spacecraft …
NASA refuses to give up on silent Opportunity rover
NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover isn’t doing much of anything right now, and that’s how it’s been for a number of months now. The rover was …
NASA tested its huge Mars 2020 parachute and broke a world record in the process
It should go without saying, but sending a rover to Mars is a challenging endeavor. Lots of things have to go perfectly right in order …
NASA says the Hubble is back up and running after bizarre gyroscope issues
The Hubble Space Telescope — one of NASA’s most reliable and important pieces of space hardware — has had a rough couple of weeks. Earlier …
NASA’s solar probe spares a thought for Earth as it speeds towards the Sun
NASA began its mission to “touch the Sun” back in mid-August, sending the Parker Solar Probe towards our star on a first-of-its-kind trip that will …
Russia will be ready to resume Soyuz flights soon, NASA says
It’s only been a couple of weeks since Russia’s Soyuz rocket launch towards the International Space Station ended abruptly due to an unspecified failure, sending …
NASA just released new images of that big square iceberg, and it’s just as strange as before
When NASA released a picture of an incredibly strange-looking iceberg that it had photographed during a survey flight over Antarctica I’m not sure they expected …
NASA thinks it fixed the Hubble’s gyroscope issue, but still isn’t sure what went wrong
NASA’s Hubble has been experiencing a bit of unexpected downtime lately. The aging space telescope was forced to enter a default “safe mode” state when …
This giant rectangular iceberg looks totally out of place in Antarctica
Humans tend to love right angles, but nature doesn’t produce them on its own all that often. Some minerals and rock formations go square all …
NASA’s incredible water system dumps 450,000 gallons in about a minute
Once a rocket leaves the launch pad, all eyes turn skyward, but the technology that keeps launch sites working at their peak efficiency is pretty …
NASA wants you to make stuff it can send to the Moon
As we’ve known for several months now, NASA is headed back to the Moon. The administration will be sending all manner of instruments to the …
