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Foom! Morpheus Project Lander Roars In Free Flight Test

What an otherworldly experience, without having to leave Earth! The Morpheus Project wrapped up a successful free-flight test yesterday. That…

11 years ago

Is There Martian Salty Water At The Red Planet’s Equator? These Lines May Be The Smoking Gun

Get ready, because here are some more findings about possible water on Mars. This picture above from the Mars Reconnaissance…

11 years ago

Mars One Proposes First Privately Funded Robotic Mars Missions – 2018 Lander & Orbiter

The Mars One non-profit foundation that aims to establish a permanent human settlement on the Red Planet in the mid-2020’s…

11 years ago

Level Up! NASA’s Space Station Robot Getting ‘Climbing’ Legs

There was much excitement two years ago when the astronauts on space station unpackaged Robonaut 2 (or R2), which is…

11 years ago

Curiosity Discovers Ancient Mars Lake Could Support Life

NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered evidence that an ancient Martian lake had the right chemical ingredients that could have sustained…

11 years ago

China’s Maiden Moon Rover Mission Chang’e 3 Achieves Lunar Orbit

China’s maiden moon landing probe successfully entered lunar orbit on Friday, Dec. 6, following Sunday’s (Dec. 1) spectacular blastoff -…

11 years ago

How Do We Learn About An Alien Planet’s Size And Atmosphere?

The fun and challenge of exoplanet science is the planets are so far away and so tiny. Figuring out what…

11 years ago

Galaxy May Host ‘Death Spiral’ Of Two Black Holes Becoming One

Two black holes in the middle of a galaxy are gravitationally bound to each other and may be starting to…

11 years ago

Speedy Particles Whip At Nearly The Speed Of Light In Earth’s Radiation Belts

The radiation-heavy Van Allen Belts around Earth contain particles that can move at almost the speed of light across vast…

11 years ago