The Juno spacecraft, which orbits Jupiter, has been imaging the giant planet's moon Europa and spotted apparent movement in its icy crust. What it is: Europa, Jupiter's fourth-largest moon.
On this date in history: In 1787, with George Washington presiding, the first regular session of the Constitutional Convention, which drew up the Constitution of the United States, convened at ...
as future travelers to Mars will be subjected to galactic cosmic rays. So, reducing travel times to the Red Planet—while also putting more shielding on the spacecraft itself, which nuclear ...
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter detected NASA's inactive InSight lander, the pioneer in exploring Mars' inner structure: its crust, mantle, and core. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted NASA ’s ...
NASA's InSight lander may be relaxing in retirement on Mars, but the robot continues to ... according to California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Joro spiders, giant, venomous flying arachnids ...
Spiders' on Mars?:An orbiter captured images of 'spiders' on Mars in Inca City. But what is it, really? After launching in May 2018, InSight – short for Interior Exploration using Seismic ...
NASA's InSight lander may be relaxing in retirement on Mars, but the robot continues to provide the space agency with valuable information. Recently, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter checked on its ...
NASA's InSight lander may be relaxing in retirement on Mars, but the robot continues to provide the space agency with valuable information. Recently, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter checked on its ...
[Related: Rosalind Franklin missed out on a Nobel, but now she’ll help look for life on Mars.] Once it reaches ... the energy into electricity for spacecraft. Of course, working with radioactive ...
NASA's Juno Spacecraft recently spotted the mysterious fifth moon of Jupiter during its 59th close flyby of the giant planet earlier this year. Jupiter's most famous moons are its four Galilean ...
Water, volcanoes and impacts from asteroids shaped the martian surface in the ancient past. Mars is currently a cold, dry desert." The view from CaSSIS showed the crater with material ejected in a ...
Without the large, powerful camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which observes Martian terrain for past evidence of water and how the Red Planet is changing, we might miss it. But the ...