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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…
Looking Into the Moon’s Permanently Shadowed Craters
There are some craters on the Moon that never see the light of day. But that doesn't stop the Lunar…
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Berth of a Dragon after Thruster Failure Recovery Establishes American Lifeline to ISS
Kennedy Space Center - After overcoming a frightening thruster failure that could have spelled rapid doom on the heels of…
The Vela Pulsar as a Spirograph
I loved my Spirograph when I was young, and obviously Eric Charles, a physicist with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope…
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Curiosity Mars Rover Eats 1st Sample of Gray Rocky Powder
NASA’s Curiosity rover has eaten the 1st ever samples of gray rocky powder cored from the interior of a Martian…
The Mars Spacecraft That Was Almost Destroyed On The Launchpad
On this day (Feb. 25) in 1969, Mariner 6 was hefted off of Earth on a path to Mars. What's…
European Asteroid Smasher Could Bolster Planetary Defense
Planetary Defense is a concept very few people heard of or took seriously - that is until last week’s humongous…
No Glory: NASA Releases Findings from Taurus XL Rocket Failure
NASA has released the findings from a panel that investigated the 2011 crash of the Glory spacecraft after it failed…
New Video Shows Fire and ‘Rain’ on the Sun
This footage was obtained by the AIA instrument on the Solar Dynamics Observatory on July 19, 2012. It provides a…
Take a Spin Around Mercury
Created by the MESSENGER mission team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Carnegie Institution of Washington,…