Death Valley Mars 2020 mission goes to Death Valley to test landing camerasnewatlas.com - David Szondy The technology that will guide NASA's Mars 2020 mission to a landing on the surface of Mars began testing recently in the skies over Death Valley in …
Boeing Boeing CST-100 Starliner completes hot-fire thruster testsnewatlas.com - David Szondy At NASA's White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, Boeing recently completed live-fire tests of the complex array of thrusters that will be used to …
Oceans Watery ancient Venus could have been rendered uninhabitable by its own oceansnewatlas.com - Michael Irving Modern-day Venus is a hellish place, but that wasn't always the case. Studies have shown that billions of years ago it might have been just as …
Earth Most of Earth's water came from a cosmic collision that formed the Moonnewatlas.com - David Szondy The question of where Earth's large amount of water came from may find its answer by looking to the Moon. According to research by planetologists at …
NASA NASA invites you to put your name on the Mars 2020 rovernewatlas.com - Anthony Wood Members of the public can now sign up to have their name accompany NASA's much anticipated Mars 2020 rover as it unravels the secrets of the Red …
Earth Arthritic astronaut mice suggest space travel is bad for your jointsnewatlas.com - David Szondy A new study from the Henry Ford Hospital has highlighted a potential hazard for future space travelers – bad joints. An examination of the tissues of …
Chang’e4 How a huge impact may have given the Moon two facesnewatlas.com - Michael Irving While we can only see one "face" on the Moon from our vantage point here on Earth, the far side is actually quite different. Observations have shown …
Methane Pluto may have a subsurface ocean thanks to layer of gas insulationnewatlas.com - David Szondy If there is a subsurface sea on Pluto, why hasn't it frozen solid? According to computer simulations devised by researchers from Japan's Hokkaido …
Apollo Missions Apollo 10: The mission that paved the way for the Moon landingnewatlas.com - David Szondy Fifty years ago and a quarter of a million miles away, three astronauts carried out the dress rehearsal for one of the greatest events in human …
Galaxies Hubble captures the good side of a stunning, scarred "two-faced" galaxynewatlas.com - Michael Irving Hubble has been photographing the cosmos for almost 30 years now, but it still manages to surprise us with some absolutely breathtaking shots. Case …
NASA NASA's Lunar orbiter finds crash site of Beersheet landernewatlas.com - David Szondy A photographic search by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has discovered the crash site of the ill-fated Israeli Beresheet moon lander. By …
European Space Agency "Stellar baby boom" may have given birth to half the Milky Way's starsnewatlas.com - Michael Irving About a year ago, the European Space Agency (ESA) released the Gaia galactic census that detailed the position, distance and motion data of almost …
Washington State University Food-tasting "electronic tongue" seeks out the spicenewatlas.com - Ben Coxworth If you worked as a taste-tester of spicy foods, you'd only be able to try a few samples at a time – after that, your taste buds would become …
Earth Shrinking Moon may be experiencing powerful quakes to this daynewatlas.com - Anthony Wood Earth's closest natural satellite could be producing powerful moonquakes as it cools and shrinks, according to a newly-published study. The …
Space Debris Space Sustainability Rating could help address space debris problemnewatlas.com - David Szondy In an effort to reduce the amount of space debris circling the Earth, the World Economic Forum and its partners are working on a Space Sustainability …
Science Space experiment looks to slow the aging process using nanoparticlesnewatlas.com - David Szondy The latest SpaceX Dragon cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) included an experiment that could help to combat the ravages of time …
DARPA Rocket Lab fires a set of satellites into orbit for US militarynewatlas.com - Nick Lavars Following a year with mixed results, 2019 is shaping up as quite a success story for US space startup Rocket Lab. The company has backed up a …
Lockheed Martin Mars 2020 lander's heat shield passes critical milestonenewatlas.com - David Szondy A vital part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission has passed an important milestone, with the unmanned probe's heat shield passing its final static load test …
Neutron Stars Nearby collision of two neutron stars sprinkled our solar system with precious heavy elementsnewatlas.com - Anthony Wood A cataclysmic collision between the remnants of a pair of dead stars may have seeded our solar system with precious heavy metals including gold and …
Spacecraft How to land on the Moonnewatlas.com - David Szondy When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon on July 20, 1969, it was one of the biggest milestones in human history. Today, we take it for granted that …
Hubble Most detailed Hubble image ever captures 265,000 galaxies across the cosmosnewatlas.com - Michael Irving The Hubble Space Telescope has a knack for making us feel incredibly small, peering ever deeper into space and revealing the cosmos in unprecedented …
LIGO New-and-improved LIGO may have detected a black hole eating a neutron starnewatlas.com - Michael Irving The first detection of gravitational waves – ripples in the very fabric of spacetime, caused by cataclysmic events like black holes colliding – was …
SpaceX SpaceX confirms Crew Dragon capsule destroyed in ground testnewatlas.com - David Szondy After almost two weeks of silence and speculation, SpaceX has confirmed that the Crew Dragon capsule that recently visited the International Space …
Asteroids Water found in sample brought back from asteroid Itokawanewatlas.com - Michael Irving During a seven-year round trip, the Japanese probe Hayabusa collected samples from the asteroid Itokawa and returned them to Earth in 2010. Now …
NASA NASA pins two science mission failures on falsified test resultsnewatlas.com - David Szondy A decade-old mystery has been resolved after a NASA investigation found that the loss of two science satellite missions was due to falsified test …
Telescopes Star unlike any found in the Milky Way appears to be an intergalactic intrudernewatlas.com - Michael Irving Astronomers have discovered a star in the Milky Way that doesn't belong. Officially known as J1124+4535, the star has a chemical composition unlike …
Wonky black hole seen firing off plasma "bullets"newatlas.com - Michael Irving Black holes are notoriously ravenous objects, chowing down on anything that comes too close, including light itself. But not everything gets sucked …
Meteorites Grain of dust found from dead star that predates the Sunnewatlas.com - Michael Irving At a glance, meteorites might only be marginally more interesting than regular old rocks, but look closely and they can tell us stories of ancient …
Habitats Purdue pursues smart, resilient space habitatsnewatlas.com - David Szondy To help put the first generation of space colonists on the right footing, Purdue University's Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats (RETH) Institute is …
