Space

On March 4th, 2021, the Perseverance rover began driving from its landing site on Mars. During this drive, the rover covered 6.5 meters (21.3 feet) and conducted some basic maneuvers and instrument tests. In keeping with a NASA tradition where mission controllers give unofficial nicknames to various geological features, the […]

President Biden nominates Bill Nelson for the role of NASA Administrator, NASA’s Perseverance rover records the sound of its tires rolling across the Martian ground and Jupiter’s Great Red Spot might have gotten a health boost after swallowing several smaller storms. These are some of the top stories this week […]

Spring will officially arrive on Saturday morning (March 20) with the occurrence of the vernal equinox.

Liftoff of GK Launch Services first launch without a Russian government satellite onboard delayed to same time Sunday

The collapse of Arecibo’s radio telescope was a devastating blow to the radio astronomy community.  On December 1st, the suspended instrument platform came crashing down, destroying a large part of the receiver dish and the towers supporting the platform, as well as causing minor damage to some outlying buildings.  Now […]

The question of what it means to behave responsibly in space has taken on increasing urgency following a series of Russian anti-satellite weapon tests.

The China National Space Administration launched another trio of satellites into orbit late Friday (March 12), adding to its network of spy satellites observing regions nearby Chinese territory.

An engineer who was involved from the start in NASA’s efforts to launch the first astronauts into space and who later led Mission Control through some of its most challenging and triumphant hours, flight director Glynn S. Lunney has died at the age of 84.

Our sky is missing supernovas. Stars live for millions or billions of years. But given the sheer number of stars in the Milky Way, we should still expect these cataclysmic stellar deaths every 30-50 years. Few of those explosions will be within naked-eye-range of Earth. Nova is from the Latin […]