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Spectacular Billion Pixel Panorama from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover
This is a cropped, reduced version of panorama from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity with 1.3 billion pixels in the full-resolution…
3-D Printer Passes Key Step On Road to Space Station
The joke about home renovation projects is it takes at least three trips to the hardware store to finish the…
“Horizons” — Gorgeous New Views from Dakotalapse
We've oohed and ahhed many times over the handiwork of Randy Halverson and his Dakotalapse timelapse videos and imagery of…
Morpheus Aborts, Then Recovers For a Second Go In Tether Test
The above video should satisfy your daily need for rocket foom. Morpheus -- a NASA testbed for vertical landing systems…
Did a Piece of Mir Really Land in Massachusetts?
We love a good space debris mystery. Hey, who doesn't, right? Regular readers of Universe Today know that it’s a…
Say Cheese: Cassini to Snap Another “Pale Blue Dot” Picture of Earth
Citizens of Earth, get ready for your Cassini close-up: once again the spacecraft is preparing to capture images of Saturn…
Book Review: The Milky Way, An Insider’s Guide
About 70 pages into The Milky Way, An Insider's Guide, a strange craving for hamburgers overtook me. The text of William…
Venus’ Winds Are Mysteriously Speeding Up
High-altitude winds on neighboring Venus have long been known to be quite speedy, whipping sulfuric-acid-laden clouds around the superheated planet…
Will Comet ISON Dazzle our Skies? An Expert Weighs In
Comets are the big “question marks” of observational astronomy. Some, such as Comet Hyakutake and the Great Daylight Comet of…
Uranus Is Being Chased By Asteroids!
As Uranus speeds in its orbit in the solar system, there are three large space rocks that are in lockstep…