Tag results for: Planetary science
Three tiny new moons spotted orbiting Uranus and Neptune | Tech Reader
Our solar system has a few new entries with the recent discovery of three moons of Uranus and Neptune. These ice giant planets are so far away that...
Lunar lander is on its side on the moon’s surface | Tech Reader
NASA has shared more details about yesterday’s historic moon landing, when Intuitive Machines became the first commercial company to successfully touch down on the moon’s surface. The company...
Odysseus shares new moon images ahead of landing attempt | Tech Reader
Texas-based Intuitive Machines is on course to perform the first successful soft lunar landing by a commercial company, as well as the first U.S. moon landing since the...
Relive Mars rover’s spectacular landing exactly 3 years ago | Tech Reader
It’s exactly three years since NASA’s rover, Perseverance, touched down on Mars in spectacular fashion.
With Curiosity and others having already reached the martian surface in earlier missions, Perseverance...
NASA has collected 121 grams of sample from asteroid Bennu | Tech Reader
When the OSIRIS-REx dropped a capsule in the Utah desert last year, it made headlines around the globe for returning NASA’s first sample of an asteroid to Earth....
One last orbit: how and why NASA kills its own spacecraft | Tech Reader
For more than a decade, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has been searching the sky for near-Earth objects. Using its infrared vision, the spacecraft,...
