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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

Venus

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

Asteroids, Jupiter, Lucy, Trojan

Lucy successfully launches

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

Asteroids, Jupiter, Lucy, Trojan

There’s a huge comet coming and it will be visible for decades

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

Comets

Perseverance pays off

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

mars, Perseverance, Sample Return

China lands a rover on Mars

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

china, mars, Tianwen-1, Zhurong

Ingenuity Mars helicopter moves to a new location

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

ingenuity, mars, Perseverance

Comets Splitting into Comets, Splitting into Comets…

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

Comets, hubble, Kreutz sungrazers

The Lives of Long Lasting Lineae

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

HiRISE, mars, MRO

Hayabusa2 is coming home

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

Apollo, Asteroids, Genesis, Hayabusa2, Sample Return

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