Â鶹´«Ã½

NASA

The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft on top at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida

Space

NASA is finally ready to launch the huge SLS rocket for the first time

NASA’s Space Launch System, the most powerful rocket ever built, is scheduled to launch for the first time on 29 August in the Artemis I mission around the moon

News

Artist's impression of the Mars Rover.

Technology

Curiosity Mars rover gets 50 per cent speed boost from software update

News

Interact rover by lunar lander

Video

ESA's lunar rovers complete simulated moon trials on Mount Etna

Video

CAPSTONE

Space

Update – NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft is on its way to the moon

News

Diffractive solar sails, depicted in this conceptual illustration, could enable missions to hard-to-reach places, like orbits over the Sun?s poles. Credits: MacKenzi Martin

Space

NASA awards $2 million to advance rainbow-coloured solar sail project

News

The ?crew? of the Artemis 1 mis?sion to the Moon

Space

Space test dummies will measure female radiation risk for first time

News

Enceladus

Space

NASA should explore Uranus and Enceladus, say planetary scientists

News

Piggy Bank,3d Render

Space

We mustn’t let the billionaire rocket men decide what happens in space

Comment

This illustration of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover indicates the placement of the spacecraft's two microphones. The microphone on the mast is part of the SuperCam science instrument. The microphone on the side of the rover was intended to capture the sounds of entry, descent, and landing for public engagement. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust). Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis. The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA's Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.

Space

Perseverance rover measures speed of sound on Mars for the first time

News

NASA’s Perseverance rover captured this image of the Ingenuity helicopter

Space

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has captured over 2200 photographs of Mars

The helicopter is providing scientists with information about Mars, reaching places the Perseverance rover cannot traverse

News

Space

NASA funds experimental radiation shield and Mars climbing robot

News

Space

Perseverance Mars rover uncovers the watery history of Jezero crater

News

Space

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is the first spacecraft to 'touch' the sun

News

Space

NASA’s DART mission will try to deflect an asteroid by flying into it

News

Piano Exit Overlay Banner Mobile Piano Exit Overlay Banner Desktop