26 November 2018
Success for InSight as it performs a flawless landing on Mars
... human explorers deeper into the solar system,” said Lori Glaze, acting director of the Planetary Science Division in NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "It's taken more than a decade to bring InSight from a concept to a spacecraft approaching Mars...
13 July 2020
UAE's mission to Mars scheduled for launch tomorrow
... (UAE) as the country, which is a relative newcomer to the space industry, is due to launch its first planetary-science mission to Mars. Scheduled to launch from a remote Japanese island, Tanegashima, during a narrow launch window at 20:51:27 UTC...
09 November 2020
More woe for Arecibo as a second cable breaks causing more damage
..., the Arecibo Observatory has been used by scientists around the world to conduct research in the areas of atmospheric sciences, planetary sciences, radio astronomy and radar astronomy for more than 50 years. Since it was built, the facility has...
23 December 2020
Harmful stellar flares might not prevent life on exoplanets after all, new study says
... fields helping deflect their stellar winds,” says Daniel Horton, an assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences in Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the study's senior author. Their study was no easy task as flares can...
03 June 2021
Nelson announces NASA’s return to Venus
... to a NASA description posted online the same day. NASA describes Discovery missions as “smaller” than its “flagship” planetary science missions. Discovery missions include the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and InSight Mars lander. DAVINCI+ stands for...
15 June 2016
Scientists discover a chiral molecule outside of our solar system for the first time
... is one of the most interesting properties of life as we know it," says Geoffrey Blake, professor of cosmochemistry and planetary sciences and professor of chemistry. "How did it come to be that all living things use one enantiomer of a particular...
