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The PI's Perspective: A New Mission Update for the New Year
Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 18, 2025 New Horizons is healthy and continuing to speed outward across the Kuiper Belt. Our spacecraft is 61 times as far from the Sun as Earth, or over 5.5 billion miles from home! Radio signals, traveling to and from New Horizons at the speed of light - about 186,000 miles per second - take about nine hours to cover that distance. New Horizons is about halfway through a hibernation period that began Oct. 2 and will end on April 3. Even while in hibernation, the spacecraft still collects science data a ... read more |
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NASA's Webb Uncovers Ancient Features of Trans-Neptunian ObjectsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2025 Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are a diverse group of icy bodies orbiting beyond Neptune, ranging in size from dwarf planets such as Pluto and Eris, with diameters of approximately 1,500 miles, to m ... more 
New Study Suggests Trench-Like Features on Uranus' Moon Ariel May Be Windows to Its InteriorLaurel MD (SPX) Feb 05, 2025 Last year, a study led by planetary scientist Richard Cartwright at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, proposed that deposits of carbon dioxide ice and other car ... more 
NASA Juno Mission Discovers Record-Breaking Volcanic Activity on IoLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 NASA's Juno mission has uncovered an extraordinary volcanic feature on Io, Jupiter's highly active moon. This newly discovered hot spot, located in Io's southern hemisphere, surpasses Earth's Lake S ... more 
SwRI models suggest Pluto and Charon formed similarly to Earth and MoonLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 10, 2025 A NASA postdoctoral researcher at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has employed advanced simulations to propose that Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, formed in a manner akin to the Earth-M ... more |
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NASA marks ten years of Hubble's Outer Planets SurveyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 10, 2024 In 1989, NASA's Voyager mission made history by capturing humanity's first close-up glimpse of Neptune, completing its exploration of the solar system's four giant outer planets. Since their 1977 la ... more 
Magnetic tornado is stirring up the haze at Jupiter's polesBerkeley CAw (SPX) Nov 27, 2024 While Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been a constant feature of the planet for centuries, University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have discovered equally large spots at the planet's north and ... more 
Uranus moons could hold clues to hidden oceans for future space missionsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 NASA's upcoming mission to Uranus aims to explore the icy moons first photographed by Voyager 2 in 1986, this time seeking evidence of subsurface oceans that could potentially harbor life. Researche ... more 
A clue to what lies beneath the bland surfaces of Uranus and NeptuneBerkeley CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 Diamond rain? Super-ionic water? These are just two proposals that planetary scientists have come up with for what lies beneath the thick, bluish, hydrogen-and-helium atmospheres of Uranus and Neptu ... more 
Europa Clipper deploys instruments on journey to icy moon of JupiterLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, launched on October 14, is well on its way to Jupiter's moon Europa, having already traveled 13 million miles (20 million kilometers) from Earth. The mission, desig ... more |
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Uranus moon Miranda may hold a hidden ocean below its surface
Laurel MD (SPX) Oct 31, 2024 A recent study indicates that Uranus' small moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, challenging prior assumptions about the moon's formation and characteristics and positioning it among a select few worlds in our solar system with potential habitats for life. "To find evidence of an ocean inside a small object like Miranda is incredibly surprising," said Tom Nordheim, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland and the study's co-author. Nordheim, who l ... read more 
NASA and SpaceX Set for Europa Clipper Launch on October 14Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 12, 2024 NASA and SpaceX are now targeting Monday, October 14, 2024, for the launch of the Europa Clipper mission. Following the impact of Hurricane Milton, teams have been carrying out system checks to ensu ... more |
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NASA probe Europa Clipper lifts off for Jupiter's icy moonKennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) Oct 14, 2024 NASA probe Europa Clipper lifted off from the US Kennedy Space Center on Monday, bound for an icy moon of Jupiter to discover whether it has the ingredients to support life. ... more
NASA launches probe to study if life possible on icy Jupiter moonKennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) Oct 14, 2024 NASA's Europa Clipper probe blasted off from Florida on Monday, bound for an icy moon of Jupiter to discover whether it has the ingredients to support life. ... more 
Is life possible on a Jupiter moon? NASA goes to investigateCape Canaveral (AFP) Oct 14, 2024 Is there anywhere else in our solar system that could support life? An imposing NASA probe is due to lift off on Monday on a five-and-a-half-year journey to Europa, one of Jupiter's many moons, to take the first detailed step toward finding out. ... more 
Does a Volcanic Moon Orbit a Distant Exoplanet Like Jupiter's Io?Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2024 While moons beyond our solar system have yet to be directly confirmed, a NASA-led study may offer indirect evidence suggesting the presence of a volcanic moon orbiting a distant planet 635 light-yea ... more 
Hubble watches Jupiter's Great Red Spot behave like a stress ballGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2024 Astronomers have observed Jupiter's legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150 years. But there are always new surprises - especially when NASA's ... more |
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