Articles

Jason Davis

NASA's chief of exploration mission planning Nujoud Merancy walks us through a picture from the Orion spacecraft.

Jason Davis

Saturn continues to surprise as scientists comb through 13 years of Cassini data.

The Downlink

A new solar telescope takes center stage, new stars collect mass, and musicians sonify space imagery.

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New ways of looking at the star that graces our skies, plus this week’s space news.

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Discover how we use light to look for signs of life beyond Earth, and meet the newest batch of Planetary Society-funded asteroid hunters.

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Our host star takes center stage, and JWST demands a little more patience.

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Jupiter’s cyclones are beautiful, and the Sun’s storms and flares are a little bit scary.

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Look at eclipses from the perspective of Earth, the Moon, and beyond. Plus catch up on the week’s space news.

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From solar storms to underwater volcanoes and asteroid close calls, catch up on what’s scary and beautiful this week in space.

Bruce Betts

Bruce Betts and Sarah Al-Ahmed provided a guide to all total solar eclipses through the end of the 2020s, with dates and locations.

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Catch up on news from across the ghoul-axy and beyond.

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From dust devils and craters on the Martian surface to spots on the Sun, we’re taking a look at everything new and exciting in space science and exploration this week.

Bruce Betts

Your guide to total, partial, and annular eclipses: what causes them, what you'll see, and when the next one will happen.

Emily Lakdawalla

Voyager 2 is now outside the reach of the solar wind, traveling in the interstellar medium. Unlike Voyager 1, Voyager 2 has a working plasma spectrometer so will be doing exciting new science. It is expected to last another 5 to 10 years, though not with all instruments operating.

Geoffrey Reeves

At five years and counting, the Van Allen Probes mission continues to reshape our thinking about how Earth’s radiation belts flex and reconfigure under the influence of solar storms.

Heather Hunter

While we can measure properties of these upper layers using ground-based instruments, satellite-borne remote sensing instruments can give us a more frequent, global, and often higher spatial resolution perspective. And that is precisely what NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission will deliver.

Tanya Harrison

Where did you venture to view the Great American Eclipse? About 100 people were lucky enough to make the trip of a lifetime for it: 38,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, courtesy of Alaska Airlines.

Heather Hunter

The upcoming solar eclipse isn’t just about watching the Moon block out the Sun. A suite of NASA-funded science experiments will to study the unseen effects of the eclipse on Earth's atmosphere.

Karl Battams

Next week's solar eclipse will reveal the Sun's corona, nearby bright planets and stars, and, if we get extremely lucky, a comet!

Bill Nye

Bill Nye, CEO of The Planetary Society, has some suggestions for staying safe during a solar eclipse.