NASA heading back to Moon soon, and this time to stay
NASA is accelerating plans to return Americans to the Moon, and this time, the US space agency says it will be there to stay.
Feb 15, 2019
in
Liquid water is buried beneath Martian landscape, study says
A massive underground lake has been detected for the first time on Mars, raising hopes that more water—and maybe even life—exists there, international astronomers said Wednesday.
Laryngeal muscles found to be underdeveloped compared to articulatory muscles, explaining poor human singing
A trio of researchers, one with Bloorview Research Institute in Canada, the other two with the University of Maastricht in The Netherlands, has found that human laryngeal muscles are less well developed than articulatory ...
Juno spacecraft spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot
Images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot reveal a tangle of dark, veinous clouds weaving their way through a massive crimson oval. The JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno mission snapped pics of the most iconic feature of the solar ...
Chinese rover finds lunar nights 'colder than expected'
China's lunar lander has woken from a freezing fortnight-long hibernation to find night-time temperatures on the moon's dark side are colder than previously thought, the national space agency said Thursday.
The orderly chaos of black holes
During the formation of a black hole, a bright burst of very energetic light in the form of gamma rays is produced, these events are called gamma ray bursts. The physics behind this phenomenon includes many of the least understood ...
Hubble Space Telescope's premier camera shuts down
The Hubble Space Telescope's premier camera has shut down because of a hardware problem.
InSight Mars lander takes its first selfie
NASA's InSight lander isn't camera-shy. The spacecraft used a camera on its robotic arm to take its first selfie—a mosaic made up of 11 images. This is the same imaging process used by NASA's Curiosity rover mission, in ...
OSIRIS-REx discovers water on asteroid, confirms Bennu as excellent mission target
From August through early December, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft aimed three of its science instruments toward Bennu and began making the mission's first observations of the asteroid. During this period, the spacecraft traveled ...
NASA's Mars InSight flexes its arm
New images from NASA's Mars InSight lander show its robotic arm is ready to do some lifting.
