Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this discovery contradicts observations of the distant gas giant made by NASA's ...

The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the atmosphere after ...

ChibaTech's instrument package includes a multiband imaging camera onboard the ExLabs mothership and deployable Cubesat-shaped landers (called CubeLanders), designed to study the asteroid's surface ...

“We got everything out of the flyby that we dreamed,” said Don Blankenship, NASA’s REASON radar principal investigator, as mission engineers delved into a wealth of new data from the Europa Clipper’s ...

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date. This report is part of the overarching activities of the CAPS, which ...

Illustration of a Mars transit habitat and nuclear propulsion system that could one day take astronauts to Mars. Credit: NASA For NASA, sending a crewed mission to Mars has been the long-term goal for ...

Hera will perform a swingby of Mars in March 2025 as a way of gathering extra momentum on its way to the Didymos binary asteroid system. The spacecraft will fly within the orbits of both Martian moons ...

John Casani spent more than half a century turning speculative ideas about distant worlds into working spacecraft that could survive the trip. His quiet influence at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

NASA’s ESCAPADE is the first UC Berkeley-led planetary mission. Its two identical satellites will provide an unprecedented stereo view of Mars’ magnetosphere. Mapping the ionosphere and space ...

ESCAPADE, the first ever UC Berkeley-led planetary mission, is set to launch in early November, with scientists expecting to receive the first data from space within a few months of the launch. Short ...

ExLabs partners with Japan’s Chiba Institute of Technology (ChibaTech) and its Planetary Exploration Research Center (PERC) ...

If you were to stand on the surface of Mars in two years and look up to the night sky, you might see a bright streak flying across the heavens, followed a few minutes later by another. Rather than ...