NASA delays Juno spacecraft’s retirement after detecting mysterious radio waves Juno what? The Juno spacecraft, first proposed in 2003, launched toJupiterin 2011. Its primary mission, to explore how Jupiter formed and developed over time, was set to complete in July 2021. This extended mission includes 42 additional orbits of Jupiter, including flybys of its moons Ganymede, Io, and Europa. Observations will also be taken of polar cyclones at the poles of Jupiter, and NASA will undertake the first-ever detailed study of the faint ring system encircling the planet....

NASA discovers the Moon is wet — now scientists want to go back Water and more water The term water isn’t just used for molecular water, but also also for detections of hydrogen (H) andhydroxyl(OH). Although H and OH could be combined by astronauts to form molecular water at the lunar surface, it is important to know in what form these compounds are present initially. That’s because this will have an impact on their stability and location under lunar surface conditions, and the effort required to extract them....

NASA finally calls Voyager 2 spacecraft after ghosting it for months If you listen closely… Just outside Canberra, Australia, NASA’s Deep Space Station 43 (DSS43) radio telescope is the only instrument in the world with a transmitter capable of sending commands to the distant spacecraft. However, scientific and health data was still received from Voyager 2 by other radio telescopes during this time. Built in 1972, this 70-meter wide radio telescope is the only instrument of its size in the southern hemisphere....

NASA is returning to Venus for the first time in over 30 years to study how Earth’s sister planet became uninhabitable. The space agency has selected two new missions to Venus that are expected to launch between 2028 and 2030. They will study why a planet with asimilar mass, size, and composition to our own turned into a blazing hellhole, while Earthbecame fractionally more hospitable. The first mission, named Davinci+, will analyze Venus’ dense atmosphere and determine whether it ever had an ocean....

NASA has made history after successfully conducting the first-ever controlled flight on another planet. Thespaceagency’s Ingenuity helicopter briefly flew over Mars this morning, in what NASA previously described as a “Wright Brothers” moment. The 1.8 kg chopper ascended three meters above the red planet, hovered for around 30 seconds, and then returned to the Martian surface. “We can now say that human beings have flown a rotorcraft on another planet,” said MiMi Aung, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)....