Solar System
“X” Marks the Spot of Convective Churning on Hot Pluto
“X” marks the spot that’s illustrative of “convective churning” resulting from subsurface planetary heating, as seen in a fascinating new…
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Cygnus Docks at Station for Christmas Delivery to Successfully Resume American Resupply Chain
The commercial Cygnus cargo spaceship, loaded with over three tons of critically needed supplies and research experiments, successfully rendezvoused and…
How Many Moons Does Mars Have?
Many of the planets in our Solar System have a system of moons. But among the rocky planets that make…
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Happy Marriage of ULA and Orbital ATK Set for Atlas V Blastoff of Cygnus Freighter to ISS on Dec. 6 – Watch NASA TV Live; Photos
After its disaster last year, Orbital ATK is ready to visit the International Space station again with its Cygnus resupply…
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Orion Gets Beefed Up, Silver-Metallic Thermal Protection Coating for Next Flight on EM-1
In the wake of NASA’s supremely successful inaugural test flight of the Orion deep space capsule on the EFT-1 mission…
Earth May Be “Hairy” with Dark Matter
I'm losing mine, but the Solar System may be way hairier than we ever thought, with thick crops of filamentary dark matter…
First Mirror Installed on NASA’s Webb Telescope, Final Assembly Phase Starts
After years of construction, the first of 18 primary flight mirrors has been installed onto NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope…
Order Of the Planets From The Sun
First the quick facts: Our Solar System has eight “official” planets which orbit the Sun. Here are the planets listed…
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NASA Awards Contract to Aerojet Rocketdyne to Restart RS-25 Engine Production for SLS Mars Rocket
NASA took another big step on the path to propel our astronauts back to deep space and ultimately on to…
Comet Catalina Grows Two Tails, Soars at Dawn
Amateur astronomer Chris Schur of Arizona had only five minutes to observe and photograph Comet Catalina this morning before twilight…