Image: The latest view of Europa based on information gathered by NASA’s Galileo mission in the 1990s. The coloring is representative of what the moon might look like to the human eye. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute. NASA is planning a spaceflight...
Image: Artist’s rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto. Credit: JHUAPL/SwRI Scientists are anticipating the rendezvous of NASA’s New Horizons satellite with Pluto to return the first up-close imagery and scientific data ever relayed from the distant dwarf...
The ‘Lunokhod 1’ robotic lunar rover circa 1970. Photo Credit: Lavochkin Today, robotic planetary rovers are becoming increasingly common. But 50 years ago, such a thing was nearly unheard of. That changed on Nov. 15, 1970, when the Soviet Union landed...
Artist rendering of the Philae lander making a historic landing today (Nov. 12, 2014) on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA. Today the ESA successfully made space exploration history by landing a spacecraft on a comet’s surface. The suspense-ridden,...
China launched an experimental spacecraft to orbit the Moon and return to Earth Thursday (10/23/14) in preparation for its first lunar landing return mission in history. The ‘Long March 3C’ rocket blasted off early in the morning from Xichang satellite launch center,...
