The Kilopower project is a near-term technology effort to develop preliminary concepts and technologies that could be used for an affordable fission nuclear power system to enable long-duration stays on planetary surfaces. after successful completion of view more...
For only the second time in a year, a NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth. for the second time in the life ofdscovr, the moon moved between view more...
A "mix-tape for aliens" created by NASA and launched into space in 1977 is to be produced on vinyl and released to the general public for the first time. the phonograph album, the “voyager golden record”, features music by j.s. bach and chuck berry as view more...
If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired up Wednesday after 37 years. voyager 1, nasa's farthest and view more...
The recorded sounds are the complex interactions of charged electromagnetic particles from the solar wind, ionosphere, and planetary magnetosphere. some spacecraft have instruments capable of capturing radio emissions. what you’re hearing is the result of view more...
The NASA's Cassini spacecraft was in orbit around Saturn since 2004 and sent back never before seen images, it was deliberately sunk into Saturn's upper atmosphere and plunged itself into the planet as its own "Grand Finale". contact has been lost with view more...
The spacecraft is following a five month hibernation, ahead of a journey deeper into one of the most mysterious regions of the Solar System. new horizons, which captured incredible images of pluto in july 2015, was powered down in april to conserve energy view more...
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched August 12, 2005, on a search for evidence that water persisted on Mars for a long period of time and it is still sending some breathtaking close-up photos of the martian surface. mars and the earth may have view more...
The Juno spacecraft reveals a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the gas giant, a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field and a North pole that looks nothing like its South pole. early view more...
