Three missions for Venus

A recent article by Nadia Drake in National Geographic gives a nice overview of the state of research into Venus’ … More

One of Lucy’s solar panels may not have deployed correctly

NASA says there is a problem with one of Lucy’s solar panels. The panel may not have deployed correctly, but … More

NASA’s Lucy mission successfully launched over the weekend: It’s off on a 12 year mission to study the Trojan asteroids … More

An absolutely huge new comet called Bernardinelli-Bernstein, which is 93 miles wide, is currently making its way Sunward and will … More

After trying, failing, and trying again the Perseverance rover has finally managed to take a rock sample from the surface … More

Last week China landed a rover on Mars. Named Zhurong, it landed in the northern Utopia Planitia region and will … More

On Friday, the Ingenuity helicopter took its fifth flight on Mars. For the first time it landed in a new … More

See that cluster of bright objects in the above image? Those are fragments of a comet called C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) … More

NASA has released this beautiful close up of the rim of a Martian impact crater, taken by the HiRISE camera … More

Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe has successfully completed its mission at the asteroid Ryugu and is now on its way home. It’s … More