After 203 days and 293 million miles, NASA’s latest Mars rover landed safely on the Red Planet. After the usual “seven minutes of terror,” the rover became the fifth vehicle to land on Mars. It touched down in Jezero Crater…
Ingenuity will attempt the first flight on another planet. The four-pound helicopter is strapped to NASA’s Perseverance rover. On Mars, the aircraft will perform a series of test flights to demonstrate if flight is possible. If the missions are a…
Imagine an enormous galaxy light years away spiraling toward our own Milky Way. This may seem science fiction. It’s not. Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that’s 60 million light-years away—but getting closer. Images from Hubble telescope show a spiral galaxy…
Celebrated physicist Steven Hawking is known for many famous findings about the universe. A research team in Israel has now taken steps to prove another Hawking theory about the cosmos. The late physicist theorized that black holes emit radiation—dubbed “Hawking…
People have long assumed that the moon is geologically dead. After all, our natural satellite lacks the internal heat needed for tectonic activity. Right? But new analysis of data recorded by seismometers during the Apollo era is shedding light on…
Astronomers agree that the universe is growing larger, and that the rate of expansion—called the Hubble constant—is accelerating. What they don’t agree on is the best way to measure that expansion rate. Current methods have produced numbers that don’t align.…
Six US space companies will share $44 million from NASA to work on new space exploration technologies. NASA calls these “tipping point” technologies. These are good ideas that need funding support to get off the ground. Some ideas are about…