NASA’s Lucy asteroid probe settles into Earth-orbiting cruise as engineers tackle solar array glitch
[ad_1] Days after NASA’s new mission to a mysterious group of asteroids launched, spacecraft personnel continue battling an issue with
Read more[ad_1] Days after NASA’s new mission to a mysterious group of asteroids launched, spacecraft personnel continue battling an issue with
Read more[ad_1] Squeezing flybys of eight asteroids, most in a completely unexplored region of space, into just 12 years is a
Read more[ad_1] CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s newest planetary science mission, an asteroid-observing probe named Lucy that will fly by a
Read more[ad_1] (Image credit: NASA Goddard/YouTube) The solar system is populated with asteroids as different as our planets. The main asteroid
Read more[ad_1] An early morning launch is planned for the Lucy spacecraft, the first space mission to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.
Read more[ad_1] So what does come next? A more traditional explanation would argue that the planets formed in essentially the same
Read more[ad_1] Spacecraft have visited most pockets of the solar system by now, but a new region is about to come
Read more[ad_1] CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s newest asteroid probe, named Lucy, rolled out of to the launch pad today (Oct.
Read more[ad_1] NASA’s newest asteroid mission, a spacecraft targeting space rocks that orbit ahead of and behind Jupiter, is ready to
Read more[ad_1] NASA is getting ready to launch a new science spacecraft Saturday (Oct. 16) to study asteroids near Jupiter, and
Read more[ad_1] The earthly journeys of NASA’s next big space observatory are nearly at an end. A cargo ship carrying the
Read more[ad_1] Become A Member When you become a member, you join our mission to increase discoveries in our solar system
Read more[ad_1] NASA’s next asteroid-bound mission to explore the earliest days of our solar system is nearly ready to launch. The
Read more[ad_1] NASA released its first digital graphic novel featuring the first woman to walk on the moon, allowing readers to
Read more[ad_1] How will VIPER map water on the Moon? NASA has equipped VIPER with three spectrometers — instruments that can
Read more[ad_1] The Viking missions cost $1.06 billion, which, when adjusted for inflation, remain NASA’s most expensive robotic planetary science mission
Read more[ad_1] When did Viking 1 and 2 launch? Viking 1 launched on August 20, 1975. It arrived in Mars orbit
Read more[ad_1] What is solar sailing? Light is made up of particles called photons. Photons don’t have mass, but they have
Read more[ad_1] After nearly five years in space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is on
Read more[ad_1] Students from New York and New Jersey will have an opportunity this week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard
Read more[ad_1] NASA has tested the functions of Lucy, the agency’s first spacecraft to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, filled it with
Read more