Scientists Not Happy With NASA’s Plan to Alter Deep Space Mission
It took nearly 15 years for NASA’s New Horizons mission to reach the point where it is at today, around 50 times farther from the Sun than is Earth. From…
Contamination Prevention Is Key as NASA Preps for Incoming Asteroid Samples
In October 2020, engineers landed a spacecraft on an asteroid 200 million miles (320 million km) from Earth and collected a rocky sample from its surface. But that wasn’t even…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Suffered an Alarming Memory Glitch
A time lapse sequence of color-enhanced images of Jupiter from NASA’s Juno spacecraft.Image: NASA NASA’S Jupiter mission is back in action after suffering from an acute case of spacecraft amnesia,…