The Moon. Credit: NASA China is preparing to send its lunar probe, Chang’e 5, to the Moon next year. The mission will include an exploration of the Moon’s north and south poles. According to a story in the Science World Report, the lunar probe by China is...
Pluto’s surface. Credit: NASA This mosaic strip of Pluto’s surface was taken by the New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015 and is the highest-resolution image taken to date. With a resolution of about 260 feet (80 meters) per pixel, the mosaic affords...
The BEAM. Credit: Bigelow Aerospace The final preparations are under way for Thursday morning’s expansion of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) from the Tranquility module. Back on Earth, a veteran cosmonaut and a pair of first time space flyers are getting...
The Red Planet. Credit: NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute) The Hubble Space Telescope took this photograph of Mars taken when the planet was 50 million miles from Earth on May 12, 2016. Watch the video...
The Apollo 10 Lunar Module. Credit: NASA Story by Anthony Young In the sequence of Apollo launches leading up to the first lunar landing, NASA had established the need for an “all up” mission that duplicated every mission milestone except the landing on lunar surface....
