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Where Have All the Pulsars Gone? The Mystery at the Center of Our Galaxy
The galactic center is a happening place, with lots of gas, dust, stars, and surprising binary stars orbiting a supermassive black…
Observing Challenge: Catch a Series of Mutual Eclipses by Jupiter’s Moons
Missing the planets this month? With Mars receding slowly to the west behind the Sun at dusk, the early evening…
Titanic Liquid: Blinding ‘Sunglint’ Shines On Saturn’s Swampy Moon
See that yellow smudge in the image above? That's what the Sun looks like reflecting off the seas of Titan,…
Building A Space Base, Part 1: Why Mine On The Moon Or An Asteroid?
So can we get off of Earth already and start building bases on the Moon or an asteroid? As highlighted…
Making the Moon: The Practice Crater Fields of Flagstaff, Arizona
Between the years of 1969 and 1972 the astronauts of the Apollo missions personally explored the alien landscape of the lunar…
Earth Dodges a Bullet — New Radar Images of Asteroid 2014 SC324
Looks like we dodged a bullet. A bullet-shaped asteroid that is. The 70-meter Goldstone radar dish, part of NASA's Deep…
A History of Launch Failures: “Not Because They are Easy, but Because They are Hard”
Over the 50-plus years since President John F. Kennedy’s Rice University speech, spaceflight has proven to be hard. It doesn't…
Mercury Pierces the Zodiacal Light at Dawn this Weekend
Psst! Ever spy the planet Mercury? The most bashful of all the naked eye planets makes its best dawn appearance…
Comet K1 PanSTARRS: See It Now Before it Heads South
Comet C/2012 K1 PanSTARRS, one of the most dependable comets of 2014, may put on its encore performance over the…
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SpaceX Dragon Departs Space Station after Delivering Slew of Science and Returns with Ocean Splashdown
Concluding a busy five week mission, the SpaceX Dragon CRS-4 commercial cargo ship departed the International Space Station (ISS) this…