
Astronomy in Space with David Dickinson
NASA to Use Pulsar Navigation for Deep Space Missions
NICER and SEXTANT demonstrate XNAV pulsar navigation system that may be used on Artemis.

Explore Solar System Worlds with NASA’s Image Archives
Have some time on your hands? Explore NASA's rich image archive and discover the solar system as you've never seen it before.

Astronomy in Space with David Dickinson
Sunrise CubeSats Will Study Giant Solar Storms
NASA has selected a unique new mission to study the Sun, targeting a 2023 launch date.

Astronomy in Space with David Dickinson
What's in the New Proposed NASA Budget
The President's 2021 budget request for NASA would push hard for human lunar exploration at the expense of several key programs.

Spitzer's Legacy: One of NASA's Great Observatories Ends Its Mission
NASA’s premier eye on the infrared sky is shutting down after operating more than three times longer than designed.

NASA Announces Site of Sample Selection for Osiris-REX
NASA has picked the "Nightingale" site, located within a small crater on the asteroid Bennu, for its Osiris-REX mission to sample next year.

NASA Announces VIPER Lunar Rover
A new NASA rover named VIPER may soon investigate the shadowed poles of the Moon, in preparation for the return of human explorers.

NASA Launches ICON to Explore Earth's Ionosphere
NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) launched successfully today to explore the boundary between Earth and space.

Astronomy in Space with David Dickinson
Work to Save NASA's "Mole" on Mars Continues
NASA engineers hope to use the scoop at the end of the lander's robotic arm to get the Insight lander's heat probe burrowing once again.

NASA Selects Final Four Asteroid Landing Sites for Osiris-REX
The Osiris-REX spacecraft will sample one of four sites on the asteroid Bennu in July 2020.

NASA's Budget Gets a Boost for the Artemis Moon Initiative
As the White House requests an extra $1.6 billion for NASA's Artemis project, the agency moves forward with commercial partnerships.

NASA 2020 Budget Proposal Boosts Exploration, Downplays Science
NASA's Lunar Gateway and a return to the Moon are the big winners in the 2020 budget proposed for the agency; the futures of planetary and Earth science are less clear.

NASA to Explore Early Universe, Origins of Life with SPHEREX
The SPHEREX mission will create multiple surveys of the near-infrared sky that will reveal the origins of life and perhaps the universe itself.

Speeding Up Plutonium Production for Space Exploration
Automation of a key process may yield an eightfold boost to U.S. plutonium production, a promising development for deep-space exploration.

Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
NASA Renews Interest in SETI
After a long hiatus, NASA gets back into the SETI game with a workshop on “technosignatures.”

Dusk for Dawn: NASA's Groundbreaking Mission Comes to an End
After 11 Years, NASA's Dawn mission to explore Vesta and Ceres is about to come to an end.

Rover Call Home: NASA Listens for Opportunity's Wake-up
The Opportunity rover fell silent in June after nearly 15 years of work on the Red Planet. Now the dust storm that prevented its batteries from charging is clearing.