Live from 1969: Apollo 9 Returns Home
“On the success of Apollo 9 mission hangs the hope for future manned missions to the Moon,” said famous CBS…
WISE Nabs the Closest Brown Dwarfs Yet Discovered
We now know our stellar neighbors just a little better, and a new discovery may help tell us how common…
Astrophotos: Comet PANSTARRS Meets the Crescent Moon
Astrophotographers were out in force last night to try and capture Comet PANSTARRS (C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS) as it posed next…
Curiosity Discovers Environment Where Life Could have Thrived on Ancient Mars
After analyzing the first powder ever drilled from the interior of a Martian rock, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered some of…
Comet PANSTARRS Stars in a New Timelapse Movie
NASA scientist Fred Espenak captured this wonderful timelapse video of Comet PANSTARRS as it set over the Dos Cabezas Mountains…
Saturn to Shed its Spooky Spokes for Summer
As Saturn steadily moves along its 29.7-year-long orbit toward summertime in its northern hemisphere NASA's Cassini spacecraft is along for…
Astrophotos: Beautiful Aurora Over Norway
Photographer Frank Olsen from Norway heads out almost nightly this time of year to regularly see and photograph what many…
How Mars Failures Helped the Curiosity Rover Land
Mars is a graveyard; a spot where many a spacecraft slammed into the surface or perhaps, burned up in the…
NASA’s KaBOOM Experimental Asteroid Radar Aims to Thwart Earth’s Kaboom
Over the past month, about a half dozen rather large asteroids have careened nearby our home planet and in one…
These are the Last Close-up Images of the Moon Rhea from Cassini
“Take a good, long, luxurious look at these sights from another world,” said Cassini Imaging Team Leader Carolyn Porco, “as…