04 July 2016
JUNO's orbit insertion phase starts soon!
...transmitting telemetry. The burn is performed in view of Earth, allowing its progress to be monitored by the mission teams at NASA JPL and Lockheed Martin Space Systems via signal reception by Deep Space Network antennas in Goldstone, California, and...
18 July 2016
NASA unveils new Mars 2020 rover
..., and it could also provide useful engineering information," said Mars 2020 Deputy Project Manager Matt Wallace of JPL.
05 September 2016
Surprises for Jupiter as Juno sends back its first images
... image giving an unprecedented view of Jupiter's souther aurora, as captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft on August 27, 2016. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM Due to Earth’s position in respect to Jupiter's south pole, the gas giant...
30 December 2016
NEOWISE spots two new objects heading our way
... with a comet. "2016 WF9 could have cometary origins," said Deputy Principal Investigator James "Gerbs" Bauer at JPL. "This object illustrates that the boundary between asteroids and comets is a blurry one; perhaps over time...
09 January 2017
X-rays from a 'missing link' neutron star could shed light on magnetar mystery
... object contains a bit of the 'astrophysical DNA' of two different families of neutron stars," said Tom Prince, an astrophysicist at JPL/Caltech in Pasadena. "We are looking forward to finding other examples of this type of transitional object."
22 February 2017
NASA announces the discovery of first-ever exoplanet system with seven Earth-size planets
... close orbits of the TRAPPIST-1 planets are reminiscent of Jupiter and its system of orbiting moons. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech "This is the most exciting result I have seen in the 14 years of Spitzer operations," said Sean Carey...
