SuperCam Became Part of the Mars 2020 Rover
NASA is one year away from launching its rover on a trip to Mars. Its launch is programmed to be on July 17th, 2020, and it is presumed to land on the Red Planet on February 18th, 2021, in Jezero…
NASA’s TESS Discovers The Smallest Exoplanet Ever
A team of researchers harnessed the power of a sophisticated spacecraft in an attempt to find more extrasolar planets. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is an advanced spacecraft explicitly built for the search of exoplanets, and a new milestone has…
Mars InSight Lander’s ‘Mole’ Got Stuck In Mars’ soil – NASA Attempted To Unblock It
NASA engineers are attempting to repair a tool on the Mars InSight probe that was expected to dig five meters (16 feet) into the Martian surface but has ended up plugging at 30 centimeters (one foot). The instrument is called…
NASA’s Mars 2020 Got Its Robotic Arm, Getting Closer To Completion
According to a statement of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the space agency’s engineers have assembled the primary robotic arm on the Mars 2020 rover on Friday. The main arm contains five electrical engines and five joints, also…
NASA To Survey “Golden” Asteroid 16 Psyche With A Mission In 2022
Until now, the rush for gold attracted many people that wanted to get rich quick to almost every part of our planet. Today’s market is supplied by nearly 5 million ounces (over 141 tonnes) of gold by the ‘Titans of…
NASA’s WFIRST Passes All The Essential Tests
The end of the universe is a fascinating topic in the scientific community, but we have to learn what happened until now before we attempt to explore terminus theories. NASA’s upcoming Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (also known as WFIRST) will…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Seen Buckyballs, Electrically-Charged Molecules, In Space
A team of researchers discovered a new type of electrically-charged molecules with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope. The fascinating molecule has the shape of a soccer ball, and the discovery may solve some of the dilemmas of the…
SpaceIL Had Enough With The Moon – No More Israeli Lunar Missions After The Beresheet Failure
SpaceIL, an Israeli run space program, has stated that it will no longer be sending spacecraft to the Moon. After crash landing on their first attempt early this year, the team said they would try once again. During this time,…
NASA Explained The Mysterious Dark Rings On Titan, Saturn’s Moon
A darkness has been spreading on Titan and is now figured out. The moon in question is Saturn’s largest natural orbiting satellite. It is the only discovered place in the solar system that contains liquid on its surface. Titan houses…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Spotted Possible Proof Of Life On Mars
In all of space exploration history, humans have been fascinated by the possibility of encountering extraterrestrial life forms. When NASA’s Viking landers were sent out to the Red Planet in the 1970s, everyone expected them to discover life on Mars.…