Articles

Casey Dreier

A new poll shows broad support for space exploration in the United States. But sending astronauts to the Moon ranks as the lowest priority among the public.

Geoffrey Reeves

At five years and counting, the Van Allen Probes mission continues to reshape our thinking about how Earth’s radiation belts flex and reconfigure under the influence of solar storms.

Jason Davis

NASA and the National Science Foundation are teaming up to observe exoplanets discovered by Kepler and TESS.

A.J.S. Rayl

Opportunity continued exploring the south trough of Perseverance in May, still looking for evidence that explains just how this one-of-a-kind valley meandering through Endeavour Crater’s rim formed.

Emily Lakdawalla

A post for kids whose teachers have told them to send emails to scientists asking questions.

Sean Raymond

Mars is a weirdo. (Well, as far as planets go).

Svet Shkolyar

If you are space professional traveling to Thailand, the country's national space science research institute has an opportunity for you!

Jason Davis

Please Funpost! responsibly.

Emily Lakdawalla

One of the Cassini mission's goals was to figure out how long a day on Saturn is. We still don't know. A new paper reports a measurement of the rotation period of Saturn that is different from past measurements.

Marc Rayman

For the first time in almost a year, the Dawn mission control room at JPL is aglow with blue.

Jason Davis

NASA and Orbital ATK are planning a one-minute test burn before Cygnus leaves the station.

Emily Lakdawalla

Hayabusa2 is approaching asteroid Ryugu! Here's how to stay on top of mission news and the mission's planned schedule for 2018.

Emily Lakdawalla

One of the great things about space exploration is how it can shift your perspective. And you don't even need to leave home.

Jason Davis

The Habitat is a new podcast about a year-long HI-SEAS mission in Hawaii.

Jason Davis

Revisiting images of Earth taken from the uncrewed Apollo 4 command module in 1967.

Tess Caswell

Returning to the Moon won’t be easy, even though we’ve been there before.

Elsa Jensen

Right after the last Mastcam-Z team meeting a year ago (link here to last two blog posts), our team finalized the design of the cameras, and then the fantastic voyage of creating Martian panoramic zoom cameras began.

Luyuan Xu

China's fourth lunar mission, Chang’e 4, is expected to begin on May 21 with the launch of a Long March 4C rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in the southwest of China. The launch will carry a spacecraft named Queqiao, which will serve as a communication relay satellite between Earth and the lunar farside.

Emily Lakdawalla

Seán Doran has made a cool visual index to the images that JunoCam took during Juno's first 12 closest approaches to Jupiter.

Emily Lakdawalla

A Mercury meeting held May 1-3 summarized the current and future science of the innermost planet. Emily Lakdawalla was there and shares her notes.