Space

NASA’s next flagship rover is one week away from landing  on the Red Planet.

NASA’s “Mission to Mars” challenge offers guided educational activities for students to celebrate the upcoming landing of the agency’s Perseverance rover on the Red Planet. 

This Friday (Feb. 12), “Space Chat” will explore missions to Mars as missions from China and the UAE arrived at Mars this week and NASA’s Perseverance rover is set to land on the Red Planet next week. 

NASA chose SpaceX’s heavy-lift Falcon Heavy rocket to launch the first two elements of the agency’s Lunar Gateway, a planned outpost orbiting the moon. The two Gateway pieces, a propulsion module and astronaut living quarters, were originally designed to launch separately, but NASA picked SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy as a one-trip […]

Deep inside planet Earth, there is a liquid outer core and a solid inner core that counter-rotate with each other. This creates the dynamo effect that is responsible for generating Earth’s planetary magnetic field. Also known as a magnetosphere, this field keeps our climate stable by preventing Earth’s atmosphere from […]

Jim McClelland: “I give a lot of credit to the cubesat guys.”

China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft successfully rolled into Mars orbit Wednesday morning, the China National Space Administration confirmed. The probe’s arrival makes China the sixth space-faring power to reach the planet. It’s also the second country this month to celebrate its first Mars mission, arriving a day after the UAE’s Hope orbiter […]