Author: Bryan Taylor

On June 7th, NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make a close approach to the gas giant’s huge moon, flying within 645 miles of Ganymede. Launched August 5th, 2011, the spacecraft was the second spacecraft in the New Frontiers program and was sent to Jupiter to find…

On June 2nd, NASA unveiled two new missions to return to Venus. NASA’s last mission was Magellan, an orbiter launched in 1989 which deorbited in 1994 and successfully mapped the entire Venusian surface, including its volcanoes, craters, and domes. These two missions are part of…

After a 200 million mile journey for over two years, the OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft, which launched in September of 2016, has retrieved its sample and is finally on its way back home. The mission, focused on the asteroid Bennu, was sent to collect at least 2…

After its amazing landing on February 18th, NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars may seem like it has been doing nothing since, but it’s been conducting tests and preparing for what it does better than any Mars rover before it: moving. It recently took its first…

The rubber-band effect of Covid-19’s tech craze is hitting back hard this year. Extensive consumer purchasing of laptops and other home-based electronics has struck the industry in such a way that has left it short of an essential component for all modern electronics: microchips. Sony…

NASA’s Artemis program has some big shoes to fill. The program, named after the Greek goddess that represents the Moon, is planning on landing humans there by 2024. The Moon’s first woman and next man will land there, with more technology than ever before, and…

With NASA’s rover Perseverance, there’s been a lot of firsts. It was the first rover to accurately live-map the Martian surface to survey a suitable touchdown spot. It’s the first rover to include an attached drone that will assist in studying flight characteristics on Mars.…