Samantha Hill, Author at Astronomy.com

How Yerkes Observatory started over

Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

ESA’s Hera mission is headed to Dimorphos, the asteroid NASA crashed into

Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

What to know about the Hera mission to the deflected asteroid Dimorphos

Scientists recreate spiderlike formations on Mars in the lab

An artist's depiction of NEOWISE overlays the first asteroid image the mission took.

Robotic Spaceflight

NASA bids farewell to NEOWISE mission

NASA CHAPEA crew

Human Spaceflight, Space Exploration

NASA crew completes Mars mission on Earth

Jupiter moon Io, imaged by SHARK-VIS on Jan. 10, 2024. The image combines three spectral bands — infrared, red and yellow — to highlight the reddish ring around the volcano Pele (below and to the right of the moon's center) and the white ring around Pillan Patera, to the right of Pele. Credit: INAF/Large Binocular Telescope Observatory/Georgia State University; IRV-band observations by SHARK-VIS/F. Pedichini; processing by D. Hope, S. Jefferies, G. Li Causi.

Science, Solar System

Volcanic moon Io gets close-up look from Earth observatory

An artist’s concept of the exoplanet SPECULOOS-3 b orbiting its red dwarf star. The planet is as big around as Earth, while its star is slightly bigger than Jupiter – but much more massive. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Found: An Earth-sized exoplanet named SPECULOOS-3 b

Orion's "selfie" of itself and the Moon. Orion will carry astronauts on several space missions.

Human Spaceflight, Robotic Spaceflight, Space Exploration

An updated list of space missions: Current and upcoming voyages

Cosmology, Exotic Objects, Galaxies, Milky Way, Solar System, Space Exploration, Stars

The largest digital camera ever made for astronomy is done

Valles Marineris, the grand canyon of Mars, slices its way across this view of the Red Planet made with the Viking Orbiter 1. Credit: NASA

Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System, Space Exploration

NASA seeks faster, cheaper options to return Mars samples to Earth

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is depicted in this artist’s concept traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012. Traveling on a different trajectory, its twin, Voyager 2, entered interstellar space in 2018. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Robotic Spaceflight, Science, Space Exploration

Voyager 1 is sending binary gibberish to Earth from 15.1 billion miles away