Missions
What a Geologist Sees When They Look at Perseverance’s Landing Site
Geologists love fieldwork. They love getting their specialized hammers and chisels into seams in the rock, exposing unweathered surfaces and…
Watch Perseverance Land on Mars. Mind…Blown
NASA's Perseverance rover is practically bristling with cameras. And those cameras were busy during the rover's breathtaking descent to the…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover: The Most Ambitious Space Mission Ever?
When it comes to Mars exploration, NASA has more success than any other agency. This week, they'll attempt to land…
Perseverance Will Make Sure it has a Safe Landing
To casual observers, landing a rover on Mars can seem kind of like old news, believe it or not. Especially…
InSight is Going to Try and “Hear” Perseverance Land on Mars From 3,452 km Away
Now that the UAE’s Hope spacecraft and China’sTianwen-1 have successfully reached the Red Planet, next up is NASA’s Perseverance rover,…
New Drones for Exploring Mars are Getting Tested in Iceland
It's looking more and more like the future of space exploration could involve drones in a big way. We've already…
Thanks to Perseverance, We’re Finally Going to Hear What Mars Sounds Like
Many consider the various rovers we’ve sent to Mars as the next best thing to sending a geologist to the…
NASA Has Given Up on Trying to Deploy InSight’s Mole
It's always a sad day when a mission comes to an end. And it's even sadder when the mission never…
The Roman Space Telescope’s Version of the Hubble Deep Field Will Cover a 100x Larger Area of the Sky
Remember the Hubble Deep Field? And its successor the Hubble Ultra Deep Field? We sure do here at Universe Today.…
With its New Extension, Juno is Going to be Visiting Jupiter’s Moons
The Juno mission to Jupiter has been extended to September 2025 – or however long the spacecraft can keep operating…