Martian Satellite Spots NASA’s InSight Lander From Space
The precise location of NASA’s InSight lander within Elysium Planitia is now known, thanks to images captured by the…
Was Thanos' Doomed Home World From Avengers Ever Really Habitable? Earther Investigates
The first teaser trailer for Avengers: Endgame dropped last week, featuring a universe devoid of 50 percent of all…
NASA’s InSight Lander Strikes a Confident Pose for Its First Martian Selfie
In the very first selfie taken by InSight, the NASA probe looks ready and rarin’ to go.
New Images from Mars Show NASA’s InSight Landed on an Absolutely Glorious Spot
It’s been 11 days since InSight made its picture-perfect landing on Mars. Vivid new photos taken from the landing site…
Too Much UV Light Could Turn Gas Planets Into Sad Rocky Cores
The atmosphere of a gas giant exoplanet located 163 light-years from Earth is being blasted into space by its host…
Curiosity Rover Just Spotted This Super-Shiny Object on Mars
An unusually smooth and reflective Martian rock has caught the attention of NASA scientists, prompting an investigation…
NASA's InSight Probe Just Touched Down on Mars—Here's What's Next
Now that NASA’s InSight probe has successfully landed, you might wonder what’s next for it. Well, humanity’s latest…
Watch NASA Land the InSight Probe on Mars Live Right Here
Today, NASA will attempt to land its InSight probe on Mars at around 3:00 pm ET (12:00 pm PT), and you can watch it…
Here's Where the ExoMars 2020 Mission Will Likely Land, and Why
When it comes to landing a robot on another planet, perhaps the most important question is where to put the dang thing.…
NASA Hopes for Martian Wind as It Extends Efforts to Reach Opportunity Rover
Five months have passed since scientists last heard from the Opportunity rover, which went into hibernation mode after…
BepiColombo Spacecraft Snaps Its First Selfie From Space on Its Way to Mercury
The BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), which is currently on an ambitious mission to the best planet with a…
Curiosity Rover Is Back to Limited Science Operations on Mars
NASA has had quite a bit on its plate recently between its Hubble Space Telescope entering safe mode, the prolonged…
Launching Tonight: A Mission to the Best Planet (Mercury)
Mercury is the best planet, in my humble but well-researched opinion. Sure, it may be small, rocky, and lacking an…
Oh Crap, It Looks Like Europa’s Surface Is Covered With Gigantic Shards of Ice
Jupiter’s moon Europa, with its subsurface ocean, may have what it takes to foster alien life. A mission to this icy…
Cassini Grand Finale Reveals Saturn's Rings Blast the Planet With Organic Rain
The Saturn-orbiting Cassini-Huygens spacecraft died fighting—in fact, it kept gathering data right up until its final…
New Hubble Observations Boost Evidence for Elusive Exomoon
Astronomers have confirmed thousands of planets outside our Solar System, but not a single exomoon. New research is…
A Third Probe Has Landed on Asteroid Ryugu—but It Has Just 16 Hours to Live [Update: RIP]
A German-French probe called MASCOT is now collecting valuable data from the surface of Ryugu, an asteroid located 190…
The Hayabusa2 Rovers Just Made a Movie on the Surface of an Asteroid
Japan’s MINERVA-II rovers have sent back a batch of new photos from Ryugu, including a stunning new video taken from…
Scientists Have Detected Enormous Dust Storms on Saturn's Moon Titan
The discovery of enigmatic dust storms on Titan means the Solar System’s most exotic moon just took it up a notch.
A Great Brown Storm Is Raging on Jupiter
During its 15th flyby of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a rare image of a Jovian “brown barge.” It’s not…