NASA

After 15 years on Mars, it’s the end of the road for Opportunity 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 15, 2019
The NASA rover’s surprisingly long mission moved Mars science past ‘follow the water’

By David Aragorn
NASA spots Mars InSight lander from space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 15, 2019
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped the newest machine on Mars. You can even see the solar panels.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s history-making Mars rover Opportunity declared dead 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 14, 2019
The robotic trailblazer’s mission comes to an end after more than 14 years on Mars. Goodnight, Oppy.

By David Aragorn
NASA Is Making One Last Attempt to Call Opportunity Rover on Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 13, 2019
Opportunity has been silent for months after a global dust storm on Mars.

By David Aragorn
ISS toilet leak reminds us that everything is harder in space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 8, 2019
Nearly 10 liters of water leaked as astronauts installed a new enclosure.

By David Aragorn
An Astronaut Accidentally Called 911 From Space, Causing a Scare at NASA 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 7, 2019
NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston had a bit of a scare this week when an astronaut at the International Space Station accidentally called 911.

By David Aragorn
NASA scientists pay first visit to volcanic island in Tonga so new it is not on any map 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- February 7, 2019
NASA scientists have paid their first visit to an island that rose out of the sea from the rim of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga when it erupted in 2015.

By David Aragorn
Small Satellites yield Big Discoveries 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 6, 2019
NASA uses CubeSats for new science missions and to test new electronics, sensors and software that might be included on larger missions.

By David Aragorn
Hubble fortuitously discovers a new galaxy in the cosmic neighborhood 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 2, 2019
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study some of the oldest and faintest stars in the globular cluster NGC 6752 have made an unexpected finding. They discovered a dwarf galaxy in our cosmic backyard, only 30 million light-years away. The finding is reported in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s NICER Mission Maps ‘Light Echoes’ of New Black Hole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 2, 2019
Scientists have charted the environment surrounding a stellar-mass black hole that is 10 times the mass of the Sun using NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) payload aboard the International Space Station.

By David Aragorn