NASA’s Juno Probe Will Tell Us New Things About Jupiter
Last month, NASA issued a statement saying that preparations for its Juno mission to Jupiter are proceeding well, and that everything is still on schedule for a launch in August…
LISA: First of a New Generation of Space-Based Telescopes
In this article, we’ll take a look at gravity waves, one of the most fascinating and revolutionary ideas in astronomy. Specifically, we will talk about the LISA mission, a future…
Scientists and Politicans Discuss the Threat of Near-Earth Objects
This article is about NEOs- Near Earth Objects- and possible steps that could be taken to deflect one of these objects if it should appear in danger of colliding with…
The Exploration of Mars Continues With ESA’s ExoMars Mission
Mars is being invaded! Already our orbiters are orbiting, our landers are landing and our rovers are roving- and more of them are on the way. Over the next few…
Happy Birthday, Hubble: 20 Years of Great Astronomy
In a few days, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope will be 20 years old. Birthdays are a good time for looking back, and this is no exception. The Hubble telescope has…
ESA’s Cassini-Huygens Mission Probes the Saturn System
The Cassini-Huygens Saturn mission, a joint effort by NASA, the European Space Agency and Italy’s Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, is one of the most successful and long-lasting space projects ever launched.…
A Tale of Two Missions: Phoenix Lander
This is part two in our feature, A Tale of Two Missions, looking at the 2001 Mars Odyssey satellite and the Phoenix lander. As we saw in part one, these…
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Has Found Five Exoplanets in the First Year of Its Mission
NASA’s Kepler space telescope just had its first birthday. Launched on March 6, 2009, this satellite is the first telescope capable of detecting planets as small as Earth orbiting other…
India’s Chandrayaan-1 Is Adding to Our Understanding of the Moon
There was a time when the words “space exploration” could only mean one thing: the highly competitive, secretive space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. They were the…
Mission Is Planned to Observe Jupiter and Four of Its Moons (Part Two)
This is part two in our examination of the Jupiter mission that is being planned by the European Space Agency and NASA, with collaboration from Japan’s JAXA. The mission, which…
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