Solar System
A Tale of Three Moons: Is There Life in the Outer Solar System?
[/caption] Until fairly recently, the search for life elsewhere in the solar system has focused primarily on Mars, as it…
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Dawn Discovers Surprise 2nd Giant South Pole Impact Basin at Strikingly Dichotomous Vesta
[/caption] Scientists leading NASA’s Dawn mission have discovered a 2nd giant impact basin at the south pole of the giant…
Phobos-Grunt: The Mission Poster
[/caption] Russia is marking the upcoming blastoff of their dauntingly complex Phobos-Grunt sample return mission to the Martian moon Phobos…
Pluto or Eris: Which is Bigger?
[/caption] The controversy between Pluto and Eris regarding their status as "largest dwarf planet" continues. During a joint meeting of…
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Daring Russian Sample Return mission to Martian Moon Phobos aims for November Liftoff
[/caption] In just over 3 weeks' time, Russia plans to launch a bold mission to Mars whose objective, if successful…
Mystery of the Martian Rilles
[/caption] When the first spacecraft flew by Mars in the 1960's, the images returned revealed a relatively uninteresting-looking place, featureless…
Why is Tonight’s Full Moon the Smallest of the Year?
[/caption] Think we can only see half of the Moon's surface from Earth? Not always. Over the course of the…
Amazing New View of the Mt. Everest of Vesta
[/caption] NASA has just released an amazing new view of the mysterious south pole of Vesta that offers an oblique…
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Book Review: The Space Shuttle: Celebrating Thirty Years of NASA’s First Space Plane
[/caption] The space shuttle program is over. The orbiters are being decommissioned, stripped of the components that allowed them to…
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Behind the Scenes: Curiosity’s Rocket Prepared at Vertical Integration Facility
[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla -- One of the more dramatic buildings operated by United Launch Alliance (ULA) at Kennedy Space…