Stories by David W. Brown

NASA’s Next Low-Cost Planetary Science Missions Will Visit Venus or the Outer Solar System

With its selection of four candidates for its coveted Discovery class of interplanetary missions, the space agency seeks to handle some unfinished business

February 14, 2020 — David W. Brown

Space

Mission to Europa Gets New Instrument to Look for Signs of Habitability

Amid technical and political hurdles, a veteran planetary scientist takes charge of a key part of Europa Clipper, a spacecraft targeted at the solar system’s most intriguing moon

March 27, 2019 — David W. Brown

Space

Getting the Dirt on Creation—inside OSIRIS-REx's First Close Look at Bennu

NASA’s first sample-return mission to an asteroid is a voyage into the genesis of our solar system—and, perhaps, the precursors to life’s origins on Earth

December 19, 2018 — David W. Brown