FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 7 | History Defined

In 10 Years, a Rare Alignment Could Allow a Human Mission to Venus and Mars

In the coming decade, NASA and China plan to send the first crewed missions (astronauts and taikonauts) to Mars. 2033 could be just the year to do it.

Inverse · Apr 8, 2023

Planetary Society leads the charge to save NASA's VERITAS Venus mission

After dramatic budget cuts stalled NASA's VERITAS Venus mission, the nonprofit Planetary Society urges Congress for a revival.

Space · Apr 7, 2023

NASA Venus mission VERITAS becomes collateral damage amid budget pressures

NASA's decision to indefinitely postpone the highly anticipated VERITAS mission to Venus has outraged and confused the team members.

Space · Mar 28, 2023

65 Years Ago, the First American Satellite Radically Reshaped the Space Race

Explorer 1 marked the entry of science into what had been a military affair.

Inverse · Feb 1, 2023

As NASA's Mars InSight mission comes to an end, JPL engineers say farewell to its twin

Pranay Mishra reached down to the floor of his workplace and scooped a handful of what might be the closest thing on Earth to the feel of Martian soil.

Los Angeles Times · Dec 22, 2022

NASA launches mission to survey Earth's water with help from Cornish company

The spacecraft will provide insights into how oceans influence climate change and how a warming world affects lakes and rivers

Birmingham Post · Dec 20, 2022

50 years ago, one space mission crushed hopes for life around Earth's twin planet

The Mariner 2 mission proved Venus was too hot to have present-day life.

Inverse · Dec 14, 2022

NASA to conduct first global water survey from space

A NASA-led international satellite mission was set for blastoff from Southern California early on Thursday on a major Earth science project to conduct a comprehensive survey of the world's oceans, lakes and rivers for the first time.

Reuters · Dec 13, 2022

New NASA instrument detects methane ‘super-emitters’ from space

The Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) identified more than 50 methane hotspots around the world.

Al Jazeera · Oct 26, 2022

Saturn's moons: Facts about the weird and wonderful satellites of the ringed planet

Saturn has the most moons of any other planet in the solar system. Here we explore some of the 274 moons that orbit the ringed planet.

Space · Oct 19, 2022