NASA's Lucy asteroid-hopping spacecraft pins down surface ages of 1st asteroid targets

Last November, when NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew past its first official ... requirements out of the water," said John Spencer, the mission's deputy project scientist at the Southwest Research ... Read More

NASA re-establishes communication with Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft that went silent for months

NASA re-established communication with Voyager 1, an interstellar spacecraft that nearly five months ago began sending unreadable data back to the space agency. Read More

Nasa's lucy spacecraft discovers age of first asteroid target

NASA's Lucy spacecraft swoops past first of 10 asteroids on long journey to Jupiter ... Additionally, the Lucy mission, launched in 2021, is poised to explore more Trojan asteroids, aiming ... Read More

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will launch later this year. Here's what to know

(KABC) -- NASA ... Europa's surface. "Once we launch in October, it's a 5 and a half year journey to Jupiter. Once we reach Jupiter and Europa, then we have a 4-year prime science mission, where ... Read More

NASA's Juno probe captures amazing views of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io (video)

We've learned a lot about these exotic bodies in the past 400 years thanks to ever-improving telescope views and close-up imagery snapped by voyaging spacecraft like NASA's Juno Jupiter orbiter. Read More

NASA's 'Armageddon' mission backfires! DART asteroid deflection test created a cloud of giant boulders that are set to crash into Mars

NASA's proved in 2022 that humans could redirect 'city killer' asteroids away from Earth ... During the DART mission, NASA used an uncrewed spacecraft to slam into Dimorphos at 14,000 miles ... Read More

NASA is launching 3 sounding rockets into space during the total solar eclipse. Here's why

But keen observers in Virginia – or those just tuning into NASA's ... launches will be from home. NASA will host a live stream of the launches on its Wallops YouTube page, with coverage of the ... Read More

NASA unveils probe bound for Jupiter's possibly life-sustaining moon

US space scientists unveil Nasa's mission to investigate Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of alien life. The spacecraft Clipper, set for launch in October, aims to study Europa's icy surface and ... Read More

Stellar picture of storms on Jupiter captured by NASA's Juno Mission goes viral. See pic

Storm on Jupiter. (Instagram/@NASA ... in HT's talk show 'The Interview with Kumkum Chadha', where leaders across the political spectrum discuss the upcoming general elections. Watch Now! Read More

NASA seeking help to develop a lower-cost Mars Sample Return mission

Responding to an independent review of NASA's ambitious Mars Sample Return ... NASA originally hoped to launch the MSR mission, with a projected life cycle cost of nearly $6 billion, in 2028. Read More

NASA Greenlights Drone Mission to Saturn's Moon

If all goes well, the 'rotorcraft' drone will arrive on Titan in 2034 to look for 'prebiotic chemical processes common on both Titan and the early Earth before life developed.' I've been with ... Read More