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Solar Storm Blasting to Mars Shuts Down Curiosity – 1st Rocky Sample Results on tap
Due to a fast approaching solar storm, NASA has temporarily shut down surface operations of the Curiosity Mars Science Lab…
Russian Asteroid Explosion and Past Impactors Paint a Potentially Grim Future for Earth
The recent meteor explosion over Chelyabinsk brought to the forefront a topic that has worried astronomers for years, namely that an impactor…
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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…
Curiosity’s Landing Leftovers
During its "seven minutes of terror" landing on August 6, 2012, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory dropped quite a few things…
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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…
Pluto May Soon Have a Moon Named Vulcan (Thanks to William Shatner)
The votes have been tallied and the results are in from the SETI Institute's Pluto Rocks Poll: "Vulcan" and "Cerberus"…
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…
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Historic Mars Rock Drilling Sample Set for Analysis by Curiosity Robot in Search of Organics
Newly received images from the surface of Mars confirm that NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully extracted the 1st ever samples collected…
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,…
A Parting Look at 2012 DA14: Was This a Warning Shot from Space?
Just as anticipated, on Friday, Feb. 15, asteroid 2012 DA14 passed us by, zipping 27,000 kilometers (17,000 miles) above Earth's surface…