Solar System
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…
- Curiosity
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Mars
- Mars Science Laboratory
- NASA
- Solar System
- Space Exploration
- Space Flight
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…
Jupiter and the Moon Have a Close Encounter in the Sky February 18, 2013
The movement of the Moon makes a fascinating study of celestial mechanics. Despite the light pollution it brings to the…
A Valentine From Voyager
On February 14, 1990, after nearly 13 years of travel through the outer Solar System, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft crossed…
45 meter Asteroid to Skirt Very Near Earth on Feb 15
Our home planet is due for a record setting space encounter on Friday (Feb. 15) of this week, when a…
Help Name Pluto’s Newest Moons!
Today marks seven months since the announcement of Pluto’s fifth moon and over a year and a half since the discovery of…
- Astrobiology
- Curiosity
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Kennedy Space Center
- Mars
- Mars Science Laboratory
- Missions
- NASA
- Solar System
- Space Exploration
- Space Flight
Curiosity Drills Historic 1st Bore Hole into Mars Rock for First Ever Science Analysis
Earth’s most advanced planetary robot ever has successfully bored into the interior of Martian rock and collected fresh samples in…