Category: Exploration
InSight Just Landed on Mars. How Did it Get There?
The InSight mission just successfully landed on Mars after its roughly eight-month journey beginning aboard an Atlas V rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on March 5, 2018. On Quora, someone recently asked why an […]
Clusters of Earth-Sized Ice Cyclones – Jupiter Shows its Stuff
With great fanfare, the Juno probe arrived at Jupiter last year. Now, the first science from the little probe is getting shared, and it’s pretty cool. In a NASA press release, Juno principle investigator Scott Bolton […]
Uh-oh: Another Mars Mission Goes Missing
Today, the European Space Agency (ESA) put a spacecraft into orbit around Mars. Piggybacked onto the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) was the ExoMars 2016 lander which detached for its journey to the surface. The lander, […]
Water is Shooting Off of Europa
Scientists have always theorized that liquid water exists under Europa’s icy crust, and with that theory the possibility that life exists. Now there is apparently proof of water – in the form of geysers shooting it […]
Deep Space Travel: NASA Picks Six Companies to Build Habitation Modules
Traveling to distant planets can be tough on space travelers. Spacecraft are constantly bombarded with radiation, debris impact is an ever-present threat, and cramped confines can cause even the most steely-eyed astronaut to question his […]
Deep Space Travel is Not Heart-Healthy
Move over poor diet, high blood pressure and unhealthy lifestyle, there’s a new leading cause of cardiovascular related death – at least for those who undertake a particular activity. As if deep space travel wasn’t […]
The New Space Race: Elon Musk Will Beat Everyone to Mars
A few weeks ago, Elon Musk announced his ambitious plan to have SpaceX send an unmanned Red Dragon capsule to Mars in 2018. Yesterday, he upped the ante, saying that he anticipates sending the first […]
Mars Space Station in the Works
A manned mission to Mars was once the stuff of science fiction, now it is the equivalent of this generation’s Apollo Program. It will take a Herculean effort to send astronauts on a journey of hundreds of […]
SpaceX to Mars in 2018!
Yesterday, SpaceX announced plans to send an unmanned capsule to Mars – in 2018! Company CEO Elon Musk has long had a vision of establishing a permanent manned presence on the Red Planet and this planned […]
Lost in Space: Japanese Space Telescope Suffers Mysterious Fate
On February 17th, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Hitomi Space Telescope on a mission to study highly energetic events in the cosmos by looking at x-ray emissions. It successfully got to its […]
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