space

TECH CORNER Seeing deep into space requires large telescopes. The larger the telescope, the more light it collects, and the sharper the image it provides. By...

Here’s a comprehensive list of what you need to know about Thursday night’s Meteor Shower. By Rena Kurlander The Perseid meteor shower happens each...

SCIENCE CORNER After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit...

SCIENCE CORNER Everyone who hungers for new knowledge about the cosmos or for bold adventures far from Earth can share in the sumptuous feast Dawn has been...

Space lovers, astronomy enthusiasts, here's your chance to see Mercury as it travels across the face of the sun.

Listen up, Space Fans! JPL is announcing a new approach to that one special weekend a year when they open their doors to the public and put on display all the...

SCIENCE CORNER A veteran interplanetary traveler is writing the closing chapter in its long and storied expedition. By Dr. Marc D. Rayman In its final orbit,...

SCIENCE CORNER Ceres reveals some of its well-kept secrets in two new studies in the journal Nature, thanks to data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. They...

SCIENCE CORNER Among the questions scientists are grappling with is what the nature of Ceres’ bright regions is. By Dr. Marc D. Rayman There are many...

SCIENCE CORNER Dear Exuldawnt Readers, Dawn has completed another outstandingly successful campaign to acquire a wealth of pictures and other data in its...

SCIENCE CORNER Many residents of Earth’s northern hemisphere have already completed their leisurely summer vacations by now. By Dr. Marc D. Rayman On Ceres,...

SCIENCE CORNER The closest-yet views of Ceres, delivered by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, show the small world’s features in unprecedented detail,...

SCIENCE CORNER An ambitious explorer from Earth is gaining the best views ever of dwarf planet Ceres. More than two centuries after its discovery, this...

SCIENCE CORNER | Control of Dawn’s orientation in the weightless conditions of spaceflight is the responsibility of the attitude control system. By Dr. Marc...

SCIENCE CORNER Flying on a blue-green ray of xenon ions, Dawn is gracefully descending toward dwarf planet Ceres. By Dr. Marc D. Rayman Even as Dawn prepares...

SCIENCE CORNER Dawn continues to unveil a “Ceres” of mysteries at the first dwarf planet discovered. By Dr. Marc D. Rayman The spacecraft has been...