RIP Mars Rover
Mars Opportunity rover, R.I.P. By Richard Lawler From engadget Some sad news as NASA declares that its Mars Opportunity rover is no more. The explorer didn’t respond to one last attempt at contact.NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover is dead NASA’s Opportunity…
Kepler’s final image
Kepler beams back final image from its almost decade-long journey By Saqib Shah from engadget Check out the space telescope’s last-ever snapshot before it ran out of fuel. NASA bid a bittersweet farewell to its Kepler spacecraft in October. During its nine-and-a-half year journey,…
‘We’ve never seen something like this orbiting the sun’: Scientists are puzzled by the shape of the most distant object ever explored
By Aylin Woodward & Dave Mosher From Business Insider NASA’s New Horizons probe flew by a space rock called 2014 MU69, the most distant space object ever visited by humanity, on New Year’s Day. Also called Ultima Thule, the rock is more than 4 billion…
China’s lunar probe makes history by successfully soft-landing on the far side of the moon
By Catherine Shu From TechCrunch It’s not Lunar New Year yet, but there is something new on the moon. In a major milestone for space exploration, China announced that its lunar program has successfully soft-landed a probe on the far…
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx has started orbiting asteroid Bennu
By Marietta Moon From engadget The asteroid is now the smallest celestial body orbited by a spacecraft. After NASA’s OSIRIS-REx arrived at asteroid Bennu in early December, its ground team quickly started measuring and mapping out the celestial body. They needed all…
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The Geminid meteor shower peaks this week, and it’ll be a special one
By Miriam Kramer From Mashable Get ready for what might be the best meteor shower of 2018. The Geminid meteor shower, which peaks late at night on Thursday into the wee hours of the morning Friday, could bring more than…
NASA launching safety review of SpaceX because Elon Musk smoked pot
By AJ Dellinger From engadget Boeing will also be reviewed. When NASA tapped SpaceX and Boeing to fly astronauts to the International Space Station, the companies likely expected the government agency would keep a close eye on things. But they…
NASA’s Chandra spacecraft snaps out of ‘safe mode’ funk, resumes operations
By Mike Wehner From BGR It was only a few days ago that NASA announced its Chandra X-Ray Observatory was experiencing a bit of unexpected downtime. The spacecraft was forced to enter its automated safe mode, which it’s designed to…
That rectangular iceberg NASA found is weird as hell, and it’s not the only one
BY MARK KAUFMAN From Mashable Flying 1,500 feet above the Antarctic coast, NASA scientists recently passed over a bizarrely straight-edged rectangular iceberg and snapped a picture of the floating slab. While an intriguing image for the many of us who…
Weathering the storm: powerful lessons from the Caribbean
From UN Environment Florence, Joyce, Mangkhut and Olivia. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, raging tropical storms continue to threaten the wellbeing of millions around the world. The death and destruction caused by tropical storms are a stark reminder of coastal…
