Curiosity Skips Drilling, Resumes Mount Sharp Trek after Pounding Slippery Rock at Martian Valley of Slippery Sands
NASA’s Curiosity rover will skip drilling into a possible 4th rock target and instead resume the trek to Mount Sharp…
SpaceX Rocket Prototype Explodes In Texas; ‘Rockets Are Tricky’, Musk Says
No injuries are reported after a SpaceX rocket prototype detonated in Texas today (Aug. 22) after an anomaly was found…
Watch A ‘Jellyfish Of Fire’ Created On The International Space Station
Reid Wiseman, NASA astronaut and part-time master of Vine videos, has done it again. This time he's showing off a…
Stolen Meteorite Found at a Tennis Court
Here's a bit of good news: the Serooskerken meteorite, which was stolen from the Sonnenborgh Museum and Observatory in Utrecht,…
Pluto Spacecraft Planning? New Map Of Neptune’s Icy Triton Could Prepare For 2015 Encounter
Talk about recycling! Twenty-five years after Voyager 2 zinged past Neptune's moon Triton, scientists have put together a new map…
Rosetta Moving Closer to Comet 67P Hunting for Philae Landing Site
http://youtu.be/CNGu7KbXzOs Animation Caption: Possible landing sites on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The model shows the illumination of the comets surface and regions…
Surf Saturn’s Rings In Amazing Raw Cassini Images From This Week
When Saturn is at its closest to Earth, it's three-quarters of a billion miles away -- or more than a…
Space Shapes: Watch This Origami Solar Array Prototype Unfurl
From paper cranes to solar sails, looks like the Japanese art of origami is making its way into the space…
What is Nothing?
Is there any place in the Universe where there's truly nothing? Consider the gaps between stars and galaxies? Or the…
Earth’s Ozone Under Attack Despite Banning Destructive Compound: Study
Some bad news in the fight to protect Earth's ozone -- one of the banned compounds that attacks this protective…