Solar System
With Philae Delivered, Rosetta Will Play ‘Comet Escort’ Through 2015
With the Philae mission down on the comet and preliminary science results coming from its brief science surge on the…
First Orion Flight Will Assess Radiation Risk As NASA Thinks About Human Mars Missions
If you wanna get humans to Mars, there are so many technical hurdles in the way that it will take…
Thud! Sound Of Philae’s Comet Landing Shows Signs Of Possible Ice
https://soundcloud.com/dlrde/touchdown-philae-on-comet-67p And we have touchdown! This is what the feet of the Philae lander experienced as the spacecraft touched down…
Shortly After Mars Comet, NASA’s New Red Planet Spacecraft Officially Starts Mission
NASA's newest Mars spacecraft is "go" for at least a year -- and potentially longer. After taking a time-out from…
No ‘Rubber Duckie’! Rosetta’s Comet Looks Weird In Decade-Old Hubble Model
Okay, let's take a deep breath about Rosetta and remember just how far we've come since the mission arrived at…
OSIRIS-REx: The Audacious Plan To Scoop An Asteroid And Fly Back To Earth
We've been super-excited about the Philae landing recently, the first soft landing on a comet. But imagine if the spacecraft…
How Do Planets Form? Semarkona Meteorite Shows Some Clues
It may seem all but impossible to determine how the Solar System formed, given that it happened roughly 4.5 billion…
Smart Robots Could Build ‘Snow Forts’ On The Moon One Day
The Moon is so close to us, and yet so far. Just last year the Chang'e-3 spacecraft and Yutu rover…
Infographic: The Rosetta Comet-Probing Mission Cost As Much As Four Jetliners
What price do you put on scientific discovery? From the way Twitter lit up last week when the Philae spacecraft…
Comet-Bouncing Philae Spacecraft Caught On Camera In Newly Enhanced Images
When the Philae lander arrived at its target comet last week, the little spacecraft landed three times in two hours…