NASA drops surprisingly intense mission trailer for Perseverance’s arrival on Mars
The Perseverance rover is only a couple of months away from completing its 300 million mile journey to the surface of Mars, and NASA wants you to know about it.…
Watch NASA’s movie-like trailer for Perseverance’s upcoming Mars arrival
Watch this NASA video depicting the “harrowing” finals stages facing its Perseverance rover when it descends to the surface of Mars in February 2021.
Watch the ISS attach its new doorway to space
NASA has released a video showing the space station using its robotic arm to fix into place a new airlock, otherwise known as a “doorway to space.”
James Webb Space Telescope unfolds its tennis-court-sized sunshield
NASA’s next-generation telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, unfolded its sunshield in a series of tensioning tests in preparation for launch next year.
Uh-oh: Black hole up to 100 billion times the mass of the sun has vanished
Scientists are puzzled by the apparent absence of a supermassive black hole estimated to weigh between 3 billion and 100 billion times the mass of the sun.
NASA wants to bring a sample of Mars back to Earth: Here’s the plan
NASA wants to collect a sample of the Martian rock and soil and to bring it back to Earth. Bringing rock from Mars to Earth is no easy matter, however.
Watch the skies as Jupiter and Saturn align at night for the first time in 800 years
On Monday night, a truly rare astronomical event will occur: Jupiter and Saturn will align in what NASA’s calling the “great conjecture.” Jupiter and Saturn align in the sky once…
The ‘Great Conjunction’ is about to appear in the night sky
The gas giants Saturn and Jupiter are drawing ever closer together. Well, from our Earthling perspective anyhow. The “great conjunction” of these planets in the night sky is imminent. They…
Juno spacecraft peers into the strange atmosphere of Jupiter
Data from NASA’s Juno probe reveals more information about how atmospheric hot spots form on Jupiter and interact with the rest of the atmosphere.
NASA and ESA’s new sea level satellite sends back its first readings
A satellite recently launched by NASA and ESA has sent back its first data on sea levels, beginning a new era of more accurate measurements of sea level rise.