Articles

Emily Lakdawalla

MarCO or Mars Cube One is an experimental mission that is sending two tiny spacecraft along with InSight to Mars. If successful, they will relay real-time telemetry from InSight to Earth during the landing.

Franck Marchis

One year ago, Franck Marchis wrote an article about the remarkable discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 system. Here's an update.

Casey Dreier

The Planetary Society's Space Policy and Advocacy team publishes quarterly reports on their activities, actions, priorities, and goals in service of their efforts to promote space science and exploration in Washington, D.C.

Roger Wiens

Excitement is building within the SuperCam team as the instrument enters the final stages of assembly and testing toward an anticipated launch aboard NASA’s Mars 2020 rover.

A.J.S. Rayl

For the 15th year in a row, Opportunity drove into the spotlight during an afternoon session at the 49th Lunar & Planetary Science Conference.

Jason Davis

A far-from-comprehensive look at the oath of office.

Casey Dreier

Space Advocacy 101 is a new online course to help space fans become empowered space advocates.

Jason Davis

The International Laser Ranging Service, or ILRS, will lend its services to the LightSail 2 mission.

Makoto Yoshikawa

What do we already know about Ryugu, and why is it so hard to know what it looks like? Hayabusa2 Mission Manger Makoto Yoshikawa

Emily Lakdawalla

Happy Monday! Here's a picture of Prometheus. You may think it's a picture of Saturn. Look hard, toward the bottom, and you'll see Prometheus, doing its part to keep the F ring in line.

Emily Lakdawalla

What a cool photo of OSIRIS-REx's sample return capsule! But wait, what's that black dot near the top?

Doug Ellison

A personal story recounts how a NASA team used a microscopic imager to take a selfie of the Opportunity rover.

Jason Davis

There are NASA choices for all letters except Y and Z; for those two, you'll need to go international.

Jason Davis

If you had a spaceship and could take it anywhere in the solar system to search for life, where would you go?

Emily Lakdawalla

The Curiosity team has completed its initial survey of the top of Vera Rubin Ridge, and is ready to make another attempt at drilling after the rock at Lake Orcadie proved to be too hard.

Jatan Mehta

Take a look at how electronics of spacecraft are built to survive the harshness of space environments.

Emily Lakdawalla

Digging into the Viking archives to produce a new old composite of Mars' smaller moon.

Adam Block

Award-winning astrophotographer Adam Block shares of his latest work.

Jason Davis

A few ripping good yarns from 1969. And a truly terrifying cartoon.

Björn Jónsson

The Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument can obtain images in two infrared bands. JIRAM can see the nightside of Jupiter (including the winter pole) and takes spectacular animations.