Elizabeth Howell
Mercury Spacecraft’s 2015 Death Watch Could Go One More Month
If all goes well -- and there's no guarantee of this -- NASA's venerable Mercury sentinel may have an extra…
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Best Space Photos Of 2014 Bring You Across The Solar System
Feel like visiting a dwarf planet today? How about a comet or the planet Mars? Luckily for us, there are…
Marvelous Moondance: Jupiter Satellites Caught Eclipsing And Transiting
On Christmas Eve, as millions upon millions of people focused on wrapping gifts and getting ready for the holidays, an…
Space-y Charity: Some Ideas To Respond To Astronaut Hadfield’s Challenge
While the world was enchanted with Chris Hadfield's social media posts last year, a new video has the retired astronaut…
Incredible Towering Structures Cast Shadows Across Saturn’s Rings
From a distance, Saturn's rings look like a sheer sheet, but peer up close and you can see that impression…
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Universe Today’s Top 10 Space Stories of 2014
It seems a lot of the space stories of this year involve spacecraft making journeys: bouncing across a comet, or…
Walk Beside China’s Moon Rover In Best Chang’e-3 Mission Pictures Ever
It's been just over a year since China wowed the world with the first soft Moon landing in almost 40…
Gallery: Diving For Spacewalks Is Way Tougher Than You Think
If you've spent any length of time underwater, you appreciate just how much drag it creates on your limbs --…
Exploring Venus By Airship: Cool Concept, But Certainly Not New
Venus presents a special challenge to space explorers. Yes, there is a surface, but hellish temperatures and atmospheric pressure on…
Look Out Below! Rosetta Will Give Its Comet A Close Buzz In February
Remember how breathless we felt when the Philae lander actually made it to the surface of its target comet a…