NASA announced today that it has dedicated Opportunity's landing site to the crew of the space shuttle Challenger, which were…
New data gathered by NASA's Topex/Poseidon and Jason satellites seems to indicate that the cooler and drier periods in Southern…
NASA has memorialized the three members of Apollo 1 by naming terrain near the Spirit rover's landing site. Astronauts Gus…
When selecting targets for Spirit and Opportunity, NASA engineers were very cautious about where the rovers could land. They needed…
The most intriguing part about Opportunity's landing spot is the big slab of bedrock exposed on the rim of the…
When US President George W. Bush announced his government's new space initiative, to return humans to the Moon and then…
Opportunity has tested out the three scientific sensing tools on its robotic arm, and it appears they all survived the…
In one month from now, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will finally head into space on board an Ariane…
Astronomers working with the Gemini observatory were able to make detailed observations of an aging star only a little while…
Using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton and Integral observatories, astronomers have discovered glowing X-ray halos around powerful, but short-lived, gamma…