Spirit and Opportunity Top 10 Decade 1 Discoveries – Top Rover Scientist Tells Universe Today
A Top 10 Decade 1 Discovery by NASA's Twin Mars Exploration Rovers Carbonate-Containing Martian Rocks discovered by Spirit Mars Rover…
Weekly Space Hangout – January 31, 2014: No Black Holes?!?
Host: Fraser Cain Guests: Brian Koberlein, Morgan Rehnberg, David Dickinson, Jason Major, Nicole Gugliucci (more…)
This Is What It Looks Like to Freefall From Space
Remember BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner's incredible freefall from the "edge of space" in October 2012? The highly anticipated (and highly publicized) Red…
Young Planets Migrated In Double-Star Systems, Model Shows
Binary star systems are downright dangerous due to their complex gravitational interactions that can easily grind a planet to pieces.…
Foom! Flaming Rocket Sled Tests Parachute For Mars Spacecraft
Watch the video above to the two-minute mark (and beyond) and we guarantee a brilliant start to your Friday. "Enter…
From Webcam to Planetcam: Planetary Imaging on the Cheap
It’s a question we get often. “What sort of gear did you use to capture that?” folks ask, imagining that…
Search for Planetary Nurseries in the Latest Citizen Science Project
Growing up, my sister played video games and I read books. Now that she has a one-year-old daughter we constantly…
Close Encounters of the Lunar Kind – LRO images LADEE
This dissolve animation compares the LRO image (geometrically corrected) of LADEE captured on Jan 14, 2014 with a computer-generated and…
A Secret Solar Eclipse from Outer Space
Call it the eclipse nobody saw. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) got its own private solar eclipse showing from its…
Earth’s Water Story Gets A Plot Twist From Space Rock Search
We at Universe Today have snow on our minds these days with all this Polar Vortex talk. From out the…