What Type of Planet is Mars?
[/caption] "What type of planet is Mars?" is a question that many readers ask. Mars is one of the four…
What Type of Planet is Venus?
[/caption] Venus is the second planet from the Sun, and a virtual twin of our own planet Earth in many…
What Type of Planet is Mercury?
[/caption] Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System. But what type of planet is Mercury? Mercury…
Hubble Delves into Two Recent Jupiter Mysteries
[/caption] Jupiter has a few mysteries these days. Between an equatorial belt that has gone missing and an impact that…
Separation Camera Takes Full Images and ‘Movie’ of IKAROS Solar Sail
[/caption] Two small "separation cameras" were ejected from JAXA's (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) IKAROS solar sail, which successfully took some…
100th Launch to the International Space Station
The Soyuz TMA-19 vehicle blasted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today to bring three new crew members to the…
How Did Mercury Get its Name?
[/caption] Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System. But here's a question, how did Mercury get…
Tooth Extraction With a Rocket
All that needs to be said is that this is the greatest You Tube video I have ever seen.
Unusual Views of the Soyuz Rocket
[/caption] Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut will launch to the International Space Station later today, and astronauts Douglas…
New Worlds to Explore? Kepler Spacecraft Finds 750 Exoplanet Candidates
[/caption] The Kepler spacecraft has found over 750 candidates for extrasolar planets, and that is just from data collected in…