News Archive / Tagged: The Range
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Pluto’s atmosphere may be starting to condense
Laurel KornfeldOctober 12th, 2021Beginning three years after New Horizons' historic flyby, Pluto's atmosphere appeared to be starting to condense and refreeze, according to scientists.
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BepiColombo probe captures its first close photos of Mercury
Theresa CrossOctober 6th, 2021The first views of Mercury by the BepiColombo spacecraft were snapped as the mission made a gravity assist pass by the planet.
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Vandenberg Space Force Base sees its 2,000th launch
Theresa CrossOctober 4th, 2021Last week, Vandenberg Space Force Base saw its 2,000th launch with the orbiting of the Landsat 9 Earth observation satellite.
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First Perseverance rover Mars rock samples suggest Jezero Crater was once habitable
Laurel KornfeldSeptember 23rd, 2021The first Martian rock samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover for eventual return to Earth suggest landing site Jezero Crater harbored water for a long enough time to be habitable for microbial life.
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New class of exoplanets identified in search for extraterrestrial life
Laurel KornfeldSeptember 5th, 2021More than 25 years after the discovery of the first exoplanets, scientists have identified a new subclass of planets that are hot, have large oceans and thick hydrogen atmospheres, and may be habitable for microbial life.
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NASA seeks volunteers for Mars simulation
Laurel KornfeldAugust 18th, 2021NASA is seeking a crew of four volunteers for a year-long Mars simulation starting in the fall of 2022, one of several year-long simulations of life on the Red Planet organized by the agency's Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog.
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NASA’s Lucy Trojan asteroid spacecraft arrives in Florida
Cullen DesforgesAugust 10th, 2021NASA’s first spacecraft to explore Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, Lucy, has arrived in Florida in advance of its October 2021 launch.
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Results from Mars InSight lander show Mars has a molten center
Theresa CrossAugust 2nd, 2021Using data collected by NASA's Mars InSight lander, which has been on the red planet since 2018, researchers have confirmed the planet's center to be molten.
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Videos simulate Pluto, Charon flyby; follow up mission proposed
Laurel KornfeldAugust 1st, 2021NASA's New Horizons team released new movies simulating the spacecraft's 2015 flight over Pluto and its large moon Charon to mark the sixth anniversary of the encounter on July 14, 2015.
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GOES-17 weather satellite recovers from brief anomaly
Theresa CrossAugust 1st, 2021On July 22, 2021, NOAA’s GOES-17 weather satellite experienced a brief anomaly and entered into safe mode prompting engineers to perform troubleshooting tasks, ultimately recovering the satellite less than 24 hours later.
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Finding life on Europa requires drilling to its subsurface ocean
Laurel KornfeldJuly 24th, 2021A future mission seeking signs of life on Jupiter's moon Europa will likely require drilling into its global subsurface ocean, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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Isotope of carbon found in exoplanet’s atmosphere
Laurel KornfeldJuly 17th, 2021An international team of scientists has detected isotopes of carbon in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time ever, a discovery noted in the journal Nature.
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Wally Funk of the ‘Mercury 13’ to finally fly into space next week
Theresa CrossJuly 13th, 2021On July 1, 2021, Blue Origin announced that Wally Funk, a member of the “Mercury 13," would fly into space atop the company’s suborbital New Shepard rocket.
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Former Shuttle Landing Facility to get new ‘utility corridor’
Theresa CrossJuly 10th, 2021Construction on a new "utility corridor" has begun at the former Shuttle Landing Facility, now known as the Launch and Landing Facility, which is run by Space Florida.
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Surface, geology of Pluto studied via opposition observations
Laurel KornfeldJuly 4th, 2021Six years after the New Horizons spacecraft returned close-up images of Pluto, researchers are teasing out more information about its geology and surface.
