February 25, 2021 Perseverance rover operating nominally in preparation for surface operations After successfully touching down on the Martian surface on February… Read More
February 19, 2021 DART delayed to November launch as environmental testing begins NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft… Read More
February 18, 2021 NASA, Perseverance ready for daring entry, descent, and landing at Jezero Crater, Mars The day is here. After years of hard work and labor, NASA has completed… Read More
February 14, 2021 SpaceX to try again to launch Starlink v1.0 L19 mission SpaceX will attempt to launch another set of 60 satellites for their… Read More
February 10, 2021 China ready to begin Mars tenure with Tianwen-1 orbit insertion The Tianwen-1 orbiter, lander, and rover mission to Mars from the … Read More
February 9, 2021 Al-Amal prepares for orbital arrival, start of two-year mission to study Mars’ weather The United Arab Emirates will attempt to make history Tuesday, 9 February… Read More
February 8, 2021 MAVEN reveals Martian atmospheric time capsule on Phobos as Mars fleet prepares for arrival Data from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) … Read More
February 2, 2021 Russia launches classified payload to start 2021 campaign The Russian Aerospace Forces, itself a division of the Armed Forces… Read More
January 29, 2021 TESS reveals triple-binary eclipsing star system & Sun-like star with extremely close exoplanets The first-discovered triple-binary sextuple star system and a Sun-like… Read More
January 26, 2021 Deep Space Network upgrades and new antennas increase vital communication capabilities NASA’s Deep Space Network, commonly referred to as the DSN,… Read More
January 21, 2021 Coronal heating & solar wind, returns from solar missions shed light on Sun’s mysteries It’s one of the greatest mysteries in solar physics. Dubbed… Read More
January 17, 2021 LauncherOne to make second orbital launch attempt with NASA CubeSats After an eight month stand down to resolve issues revealed during … Read More
January 12, 2021 Juno illuminates 25 year old Jovian mystery, mission extended to 2025 More than four and a half years after arriving in orbit of Jupiter, … Read More
January 8, 2021 NASA selects potential small-scale astrophysics missions, Hubble measures exoplanet’s odd orbit The Hubble Space Telescope has successfully measured the highly … Read More
January 6, 2021 NG-14 Cygnus departs ISS, kicks off busy year for Station crew After a period of over three months in which the spacecraft was berthed… Read More
December 11, 2020 Astra readying Rocket 3.2 for their second orbital launch attempt Just three months after their first try at reaching orbit fell short,… Read More
December 5, 2020 JAXA’s Hayabusa2 sample return capsule to land in Australia Hayabusa2’s sample return capsule is expected to land in Woomera,… Read More
November 30, 2020 Missing dark matter & shadows from a black hole, Hubble continues to unlock cosmic mysteries It’s a constant of the universe. Dark matter – a key ingredient… Read More