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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…
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…
Making the Trip to Mars Cheaper and Easier: The Case for Ballistic Capture
When sending spacecraft to Mars, the current, preferred method involves shooting spacecraft towards Mars at full-speed, then performing a braking…
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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…
NASA’s NuSTAR Scans the Sun with X-ray Vision
What if you had x-ray vision like Superman? Or if those funny-looking glasses they advertised in comic books in the 60s…
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…
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…
Star Trekking: We Humans Can Beam Tools Into Space Without A Transporter
In the 1960s, we thought the best way of sending stuff between Earth and space was through a transporter. These…
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NASA’s First Orion Crew Module Arrives Safely Back at Kennedy Space Center
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - After a history making journey of more than 66,000 miles through space, ocean splash down…