Moving out into the asteroid belt and farther still to the gas giants, NASA’s Dawn, Juno, and Cassini missions churned away in orbit of their respective hosts – with Dawn continuing an up-close-and-personal investigation of the dwarf planet Ceres, Juno’s fantastically accurate arrival at Jupiter but frustratingly crippled start to its science mission, and the beginning of the end for the Cassini mission that’s set to end in September 2017.
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…
Space Launch System (SLS) managers are conducting a feasibility study into the use of a…
Capturing and holding the attention of the general public for space exploration purposes is often…
As expected, the Space Launch System (SLS) successfully passed the major milestone of the Preliminary…
For NASA’s unmanned explorers, 2012 was an astonishing year filled with discoveries and observations inside…
SLS managers have asked the aerospace industry for information about the potential use of existing…
The Space Launch System (SLS) teams are looking into the potential of finding extra roles…
As NASA managers continue to work through the evaluations into an exploration roadmap for the…
It was an interesting year for NASA as the 2011 calendar brought about the retirement…
