Exploration

Bennu is a “rubble-pile” asteroid, meaning that it formed from the debris of a much larger asteroid that was destroyed by an ancient impact. Fragments from the collision coalesced under their own weak gravity to form Bennu. The team used unprecedented, high-resolution global data sets to examine craters on Bennu: …

NASA and ESA (European Space Agency), its partner in the Mars Sample Return Program, have established a new group of researchers to maximize the scientific potential of Mars rock and sediment samples that would be returned to Earth for in-depth analysis. Called the Mars Sample Return Campaign Science Group, the …

A concept in development at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory would allow potential planetary missions to chase interesting clues in subsurface oceans. Someday, a swarm of cellphone-size robots could whisk through the water beneath the miles-thick icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus, looking for signs of alien …

في فبراير 2021، أصبحت دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة أول دولة عربية وخامس دولة تصل إلى المريخ، بالتزامن مع عام الذكرى السنوية الخمسين لدولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة. بعد السفر 306 ملايين ميل في سبعة أشهر، يدور مسبار الأمل الإماراتي الآن حول الكوكب الأحمر. باستخدام ثلاث أدوات علمية متطورة، يقوم هوب بجمع …

Nearly 140 million miles away on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover is searching for life and measuring the age and makeup of the Red Planet. The fourth rover to explore our planetary neighbor uses laser spectrometry to analyze the elements found on the surface by firing a laser at a sample …

NASA administrator Bill Nelson said Wednesday the agency will reveal the “deepest image of our universe that has ever been taken” on July 12, thanks to the newly operational James Webb Space Telescope. Webb is able to gaze further into the cosmos than any telescope before it, thanks to its …

China’s first successful interplanetary mission has completed mapping the Red Planet more than a year after its arrival.       The Tianwen 1 orbiter used its medium-resolution camera to image the surface of Mars; the spacecraft also completed science objectives assigned to the six other scientific payloads on board. This milestone means …