This artist’s illustration shows NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter, with its solar arrays and main antenna pointed toward the distant sun and Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A NASA spacecraft is about to start unlocking the many secrets of giant, mysterious Jupiter. The Juno probe is scheduled to enter orbit around Jupiter on Monday (July 4), after […]
On Asteroid Day, observed June 30, researchers around the world gather to discuss near-Earth objects like asteroids and efforts to avoid or lessen the danger of future impacts. Credit: Texas A&M One hundred and eight years ago today (June 30), a massive object smashed down near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia, causing a powerful […]
Jupiter! The largest planet in our solar system, a bulging beauty known for its ominous Great Red Spot. It’s also a world cloaked in mystery, full of puzzles that scientists are working to solve. NASA’s Juno spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the giant planet on Monday (July 4), to do more investigations of this […]
This diagram shows the orbits of several moons located close to the planet Neptune. All of them were discovered in 1989 by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, with the exception of S/2004 N 1, which was discovered in archival Hubble Space Telescope images taken from 2004 to 2009. Image released July 15, 2013. Credit: NASA, ESA, […]
The crescent planet Neptune and its crescent moon Triton, as seen by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. Credit: Voyager 2, NASA Triton is the largest of Neptune’s moons. Discovered in 1846 by British astronomer William Lassell – just weeks after Neptune itself was found – the moon showed some strange characteristics as astronomers learned […]
Uranus and its five major moons are depicted in this montage of images acquired by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. The moons, from largest to smallest as they appear here, are Ariel, Miranda, Titania, Oberon and Umbriel. Credit: NASA/JPL The planet Uranus has 27 known moons, most of which we didn’t discover until the space age. […]
The comparitive sizes of some of Saturn’s biggest moons are shown. Credit: NASA/JPL/David Seal At least 62 moons travel around Saturn. They come in a variety of sizes and compositions, from almost pure ice to rocky material, as well as a combination of both. Their journeys around the ringed planet range from half an Earth […]
Rosetta is set to complete its mission in a controlled descent to the surface of its comet on 30 September. To source
This view shows a close up of toward the south polar region of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and show a depression within the moon’s orange and blue haze layers near the south pole. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft snapped the image on Sept. 11, 2011 and it was released on Dec. 22. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Titan […]
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Today is international Asteroid Day – learn more about ESA asteroid tracking and future exploration plans To source
The target asteroid of Hayabusa2 is (162173) Ryugu, 1999 JU3 in the provisional designation. Hayabusa2 will arrive at this asteroid in June – July 2018. In this summer, we have a opportunity to observe Ryugu, so we set up “Ryugu Observation Campaign” from July 1 to August 15, 2016. This is the last chance to […]
NASA’s Juno probe has traveled nearly 1.8 billion miles (2.8 billion kilometers) through space to reach Jupiter and study the planet’s history, yet this impressive probe needs only about the same amount of power as a blender, according to NASA. After a five-year journey, Juno is scheduled to reach the Jupiter system on July 4 […]