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From NASA: “Image is an artist’s conception of the Pluto occultation seen close-up, not a photo.” NASA’s SOFIA jetliner recently observed Pluto during an occultation event, prior to New Horizons’ historic flyby. Image Credit: NASA In a year brimming with ongoing discoveries about distant, unknown worlds, including the Solar System’s planets and a […] Artist’s conception of an ocean-covered aquaplanet. Image Credit: Christine Daniloff/MIT With so many exoplanets now being discovered on a regular basis by astronomers, the focus has turned to what number of them might be habitable for some kind of life. For life as we know it at least, that depends on a number […] Artist’s conception of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Image Credit: MIT The search for exoplanets is about to enter an exciting new phase, as the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission has now been cleared for development by NASA. TESS will greatly expand the number of stars being observed for evidence of […] Using a precision formation-flying technique, the twin GRAIL spacecraft mapped the Moon’s gravity field, as depicted in this artist’s rendering. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists, using data from the lunar-orbiting twins of NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, are gaining new insight into how the face of the Moon received its rugged […] |
 Next Launch CRS-21 on a Falcon 9 rocket from KSC,FL scheduled for: 5 Dec 20 at 16:39 GMT 5 Dec 20 at 11:39am Eastern 
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