Look Out, Pluto! Spacecraft Will Fly By In Less Than One Year
Countdown! Just under one year from now, the New Horizons will finally reach its mission goal after sailing through the…
Targeting Icy Europa: NASA Seeks Ideas To Explore Potentially Habitable Moon
What lies beneath the cracked, thick ice on the surface of Europa? NASA is hoping to fly a mission to…
Rosetta’s Lander Facing An Unexpected Comet Shape: A Double Nucleus
A view of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's nucleus, appearing to show a double binary. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA It appears…
Video: A Bright Orange Moon Watches Bastille Day Fireworks from Above
Who had the best view of the Bastille Day fireworks last night? From this lovely video from astrophotographer Thierry Legault,…
A Stunning Image of our Home Star
Active regions 2108 and 2109 are now passing around the limb of the Sun, but not before solar photography specialist Alan…
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The Search for Alien Life Could Get A Boost From NASA’s Next-Generation Rocket
In three years, NASA is planning to light the fuse on a huge rocket designed to bring humans further out…
SpaceX Launches Six Commercial Satellites on Falcon 9; Landing Test Ends in “Kaboom”
SpaceX successfully launched six ORBCOMM advanced telecommunications satellites into orbit on Monday, July 14, to significantly upgrade the speed and…
Your Weekend ‘SuperMoon’ Photos from Around the World
Did you hear there was something special about the full Moon this weekend... that it would be, well... really super?…
Mountains, Gandalf! Red Planet Pictures Show Mars In The Eyes Of The Rovers
Fancy a little Mars in your daily life? You need go no further than the excellent raw image archive that…
Into The Black? Maybe Radio Bursts Are From Outside The Galaxy After All, Study Says
Where are these radio bursts coming from? Astronomers have heard these signals from the sky several times, but always with…