On May 21, 2010, the Akatsuki orbiter ("Dawn" in Japanese) launched from the Tanegashima Space Center atop a H-IIA Launch Vehicle, establishing orbit around Venus in December 2015. In so doing, ...

Test your knowledge of the Artemis program—from cutting-edge tech and lunar missions to the astronauts leading the way. NASA's Artemis program marks a thrilling new chapter in humanity's journey ...

Venus is officially a lonely planet. After losing contact with the Akatsuki spacecraft last year, Japan’s space agency (JAXA) has officially ended operations of the lone mission left in our ...

ST. LOUIS – NASA’s Juno Mission will soon be coming to an end. Launched in 2011, the four-ton probe and its wide solar arrays arrived at Jupiter in 2016. Its mission? Look beneath the dense, ...

Some NASA missions are designed for very specific tasks, but all of them help feed into our understanding of our universe, and in some cases our pale blue dot, work. A new mission to study one of the ...

NASA announced that the Artemis II mission to ferry astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years, could launch earlier than expected. Acting Deputy Associate Administrator ...

Bridge Street Mission in Wausau raised over $5 million in two years for a new, larger facility. The new 35,000-square-foot building allows the organization to expand services for men and add services ...

Reanalyzing old data with our modern understanding seems to be in vogue lately. However, the implications of that reanalysis are more impactful for some topics than for others. Subscribe to our ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has issued a call for research proposals to enhance the upcoming Venus Orbiter Mission (VOM), also known as Shukrayaan. The mission is designed to ...

Reanalyzing old data with our modern understanding seems to be in vogue lately. However, the implications of that reanalysis are more impactful for some topics than for others. One of the most hotly ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center ...