Can Philae Power Up After Doing A Triple Comet Landing Into Shadowy Spot?
Update, 10 p.m. EST: Philae is now asleep, according to the European Space Agency, for what could prove to be…
Music to Celebrate the Rosetta Mission
We report on the Rosetta mission to share the news and follow the progress of the precarious-perched Philae. But sometimes it takes…
Concerns over ESA’s Data Release Policy Amidst Rosetta Comet Landing
This week, history was made as the Rosetta mission's Philae lander touched down on the surface of 67P/Churnyumov-Gerasimenko. Days before…
China Reveals Designs for Mars Rover Mission
For many space-faring nations, ambitions for Mars run broad and deep. Now, add China to the list of countries with…
Weather Forecasting on Mars Likely to be Trickier Than on Earth
Predicting the weather here on Earth is never an easy thing, but predicting it on Mars may be ever trickier.…
‘Double Earths’ Could Be Fun Exoplanets To Hunt For — If They Exist
One big driver in the search for exoplanets is whether life can exist elsewhere in the Universe. In fact, a…
Radio Galaxy With Black Hole Has ‘Fierce Electrical Thunderstorm’ Raging In Its Depths
We know black holes are dangerous to people and galactic objects alike due to their immense gravity. But it turns…
Wake Up, Pluto Spacecraft! New Horizons Emerges From Nap Next Month
It's not quite the cryogenic sleep featured in Interstellar, but all the same, NASA's New Horizons probe has spent most…
New Images from Philae Reveal Comet’s Ancient Surface
We may not know exactly where Philae is, but it's doing a bang-up job sending its first photos from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.…