A new life-detecting instrument is preparing for a mission to the Red Planet. The Urey: Mars Organic and Oxidant Detector instrument, developed by a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at ...

On Monday, NASA announced $750,000 in funding for development of an instrument to detect signs of life on Mars proposed by a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. The ...

As Parker Solar Probe prepares for an unprecedented close-up of the sun, the new spacecraft sent data home showing that all is well in the mission. The probe's instruments showed the band of the Milky ...

But the mission team expects it to come back online soon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One of the instruments on NASA's Parker ...

An instrument on NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was powered off by the spacecraft autonomy system on Feb. 12. It happened during the application of an approved flight software patch to the Energetic ...

NASA is developing a mini-electron probe based on an array of carbon nanotube dots. The probe would be used in an instrument, which would analyze the chemical properties of rocks and soils on ...

About a week has passed since NASA launched a historic multi-year mission to study our solar system’s Sun, and according to the agency’s engineers, so fat everything goes as planned. The tasks planned ...