Spacecraft, what do your robot eyes see?
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:40:11
Cameras on spacecraft are our eyes into the Cosmos. Sometimes they teach us things, sometimes they reveal gaps in our knowledge.
Someone’s aliens
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:40:11Life thrives on Earth, and we even send evidence of our presence out into the Solar System. Is anyone out there looking for us?Inside, underneath, backward, upside-down
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:40:11From holes on Mars to a spun-around moon and a flipped reflection, space science involves looking at things from all different angles.Cloudy skies, smooth sailing
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:40:11A Martian cloud atlas, LightSail wins big, and multiple missions coast toward launch.Your impact: September equinox 2024
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:40:11Exploring Europa and defending Earth.Where Congress Stands on NASA's 2025 budget
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:40:11Weeks before the new fiscal year, Congress still hasn't finalized NASA's 2025 budget.The Tianlin Space Telescope
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:40:11China is in the early stages of planning a huge space observatory to help answer the matter of whether we are alone in the galaxy.New insights into asteroid properties: A STEP Grant update
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:40:11A Planetary Society-funded project to understand asteroids achieved its main goals and scientific objectives this year.How to spot Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:40:11Catch this comet over the next few days, and check back in a couple weeks when it may shine even brighter.The Hera launch: What to expect
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:40:11The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing to launch a mission to study the aftermath of DART's impact on the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos.Extraterrestrial artifacts
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:40:11Could the Solar System host traces of other intelligent life?The Europa Clipper launch: What to expect
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:40:11NASA is preparing to launch its flagship mission to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa. Launching sometime in October 2024 and arriving in 2030, the mission will explore the icy world with a subsurface ocean that scientists think could have conditions favorable to life.Earthlings as aliens
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:40:11Looking at life on Earth from another perspective.Could Europa Clipper find life?
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:40:11For a mission that doesn’t aim to find alien life, Europa Clipper may come surprisingly close.Europa Clipper launches on its journey to Jupiter’s icy moon
Updated: 2024-10-14 07:00:00NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft launched today aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.NASA set to launch Europa probe to search for signs of habitability
Updated: 2024-10-13 23:51:03
A 6000-kilogram spacecraft will embark on a six-year journey to Jupiter to explore whether its icy moon Europa has the conditions to support lifeTwinsies!
Updated: 2024-10-11 14:30:00Asteroids that come in pairs, matching volcanic features on Mars and Earth, and the potential space policies of two administrations.Starship: When will SpaceX's next 'chopstick' test flight go ahead?
Updated: 2024-10-11 12:30:26
SpaceX claims the fifth test flight of its Starship rocket will happen “within days”, but the Federal Aviation Administration has not yet approved the launchElon Musk's Tesla Cybercab is a hollow promise of a robotaxi future
Updated: 2024-10-11 10:36:22
Autonomous taxis are already operating on US streets, while Elon Musk has spent years promising a self-driving car and failing to deliver. The newly announced Tesla Cybercab is unlikely to change thatHera launches to study the aftermath of an asteroid deflection test
Updated: 2024-10-07 14:58:00The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft launched on Oct. 7, 2024, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It will travel to the Didymos-Dimorphos asteroid system to study the aftermath of the first-ever field test of an asteroid deflection technique.Glitter and glow
Updated: 2024-10-04 14:30:00This week we look forward to launches, gaze at glowing auroras, and get creative with glitter.Hera mission set to revisit asteroid after NASA's redirection test
Updated: 2024-10-03 23:48:43
The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which had its orbit altered by NASA’s DART mission in 2022A dramatic return from space in Kazakhstan
Updated: 2024-10-02 18:00:00
Andrew McConnell's otherworldly photograph captures a Russian cosmonaut in front of the just-landed Soyuz MS spacecraft in Kazakhstan's remote grasslandsEuropa Clipper: A mission backed by advocates
Updated: 2024-10-01 14:00:00Europa Clipper will soon head for Jupiter's icy, potentially habitable moon. Without the advocacy efforts of The Planetary Society and our members, the mission may never have been possible.