Missions

NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor.

Join us in a conversation between planetary scientist Kevin Hand and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, about “Alien Oceans”. The below is an abridged version of that conversation from the podcast “StarTalk“. To listen to the full episode, visit: https://www.startalkradio.net/show/cosmic-queries-alien-oceans/ NEIL: Today’s show is a StarTalk,

The small rotorcraft made history, hovering above Jezero Crater, demonstrating that powered, controlled flight on another planet is possible.

Groundbreaking mission may provide clues to Titan’s habitability.

A planet in an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away may offer a clue to a mystery much closer to home: a hypothesized, distant body in our solar system dubbed "Planet Nine."

New research suggest that glycine, and very likely other amino acids, form in dense interstellar clouds well before they transform into new stars and planets.

In a new video from the NASA Astrobiology Program, astrobiologists Dr. Jason Dworkin and Dr. Scott Sandford explain the importance of the OSIRIS-REx mission in the quest to understand the role that asteroids and other small bodies play in the origins of life on Earth.  OSIRIS-REx & the

NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon.

Some exoplanets have a direct line of sight to observe Earth’s biological qualities from far, far away.

NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will identify planets with large orbits, similar to our solar system's far-flung giants, Uranus and Neptune.