Antares Orb-3 Rocket Explosion and Frightening Incineration Captured by Up Close Launch Pad Videos/Photos: Pt. 2
http://youtu.be/870klsIxFvc Video Caption: This up close launch pad camera view is a time lapse sequence of images showing the sudden…
The Search for Dark Energy Just Got Easier
Since the early 20th century, scientists and physicists have been burdened with explaining how and why the Universe appears to…
Opportunity Mars Rover Pushes Past 41 Kilometers Of Driving On Red Planet
Opportunity is the rover that keeps on going and going. It recently broke an extraterrestrial driving record after 10 years…
NASA Wants To Launch Tiny Moon Satellites On Its Next-Generation Rocket
As the space community counts down the days to the long-awaited Dec. 4 uncrewed launch of the Orion spacecraft --…
Mercury Spacecraft Moves To Testing Ahead Of 2016 Launch To Sun’s Closest Planet
After facing down a couple of delays due to technical difficulties, Europe's and Japan's first Mercury orbiter is entering some…
Communicating Across the Cosmos, Part 3: Bridging the Vast Gulf
If extraterrestrial civilizations exist, the nearest is probably at least hundreds or thousands of light years away. Still, the greatest…
Where The Heck Did Philae Land? Rosetta Team Narrows The Cometary Search
The first soft comet landing Nov. 12 showed us how space missions can quickly drift to the unexpected. Philae's harpoons…
Astronomers Discover First Mulitiple-image Gravitationally-lensed Supernova
How about four supernovae for the price of one? Using the Hubble Space Telescope, Dr. Patrick Kelly of the University of…
Africa’s First Mission to the Moon Announced
Africa is home to 7 out of 10 of the world's fastest-growing economies. It's population is also the "youngest" in…
Is Phobos Doomed?
What fate awaits Phobos, one of the moons of Mars? “All these worlds are yours except Europa, attempt no landing…