Continuing its exploration at the ringed giant of the solar system, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has completed a dive through the ice plume ejecta material of the Saturnian moon Enceladus. The dive, designed to collect data about the mysterious subterranean salt water ocean on Enceladus, took Cassini on its deepest dive ever into the mysterious plumes of the ice moon.
On Wednesday, NASA’s Cassini mission will make the first of three close encounters with Enceladus,…
As the Space Launch System (SLS) teams head into their first full year since the…
Newly understood instrumentation readings returned in the 1990s from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in orbit of…
It’s been said before, but it bears repeating: Tuesday was a momentous and historic day…
Goodbye, Cassini. And thank you. After a 20-year mission, 13 in orbit of Saturn, Cassini…
Exactly 38 years to the day after Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to encounter…
Nearly 20 years after launch and almost 13 years at the majestic ringed planet, the…
Moving out into the asteroid belt and farther still to the gas giants, NASA’s Dawn,…
SpaceX’s Elon Musk has made his landmark speech, finally revealing details of his plans to…
NASA has confirmed “statistically significant evidence” from the Hubble Space Telescope indicating the presence of…
The Cassini spacecraft is conducting a fly-by pass of Titan on Monday, a pass that…
Year 2015 was yet another banner stretch for planetary exploration. The year saw the farewell…
Over two months after its historic flyby of Pluto, New Horizons is sending back a…
NASA has selected nine out of 33 proposed instruments for inclusion in a proposed mission…
A group at NASA’s Johnson Space Center has successfully tested an electromagnetic (EM) propulsion drive…
NASA’s 2016 budget proposal has provided a small amount of funding to formate a plan…
For NASA, 2014 marked the 10th anniversary of MESSENGER in space and the tenth anniversary…
Space Launch System (SLS) managers are continuing to look at potential – and as yet…
Ten years ago today (Monday, June 30), NASA made history as the Cassini spacecraft became…