A NASA explorer has successfully completed its 1.2 billion mile, two-year-long journey to reach the asteroid Bennu this Monday. This involved executing a maneuver that changed its trajectory, so that instead of flying towards Bennu it was flying around it. The Origins, …Continue reading
InSight probe touches down near Mars’s equator
NASA’s InSight probe has landed successfully on Mars following a perilous seven-minute plunge to the planet’s surface. Signals from the probe indicating that it’s solar panels were open and operational were received on Earth at approximately 5:30 PM PST. NASA’s Mars Odyssey …Continue reading
Pinwheel star system pokes holes in existing theories on stars
An international team of scientists has discovered a massive new star system which challenges existing theories about the life and death of large stars. The system has been dubbed Apep. More specifically, scientists have discovered a gamma-ray burst progenitor system. This is …Continue reading
Mars could be home to aerobic life
Prevalent assumptions that the environment on Mars could not support aerobic organisms were shattered this past Monday when researchers from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California revealed that they had discovered oxygen in the planet’s salt-water reservoirs. In certain specific …Continue reading